hey, On 30/10/2009 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Jonas Meurer] > > the startpar patch 05_pri_kdm_gdm.patch added in sysvinit 2.87dsf-7 > > seems to introduce a new bug: the display manager (gdm on this > > machine) now is started before scripts that are marked as > > interactive. > > Interesting. Had not thought about that consequence. Will consider > to back out this patch until the affected packages are fixed. Are you > aware of more than openvpn that need to fix its dependencies?
i didn't discover any other conflict yet, but i think that _all_ interactive boot scripts be it console-setup, cryptdisks, kbd, openvpn or whatever _need_ to be started before a display manager. and i don't see a reason why they would need to declare X-Start-Before headers for every display manager in the archive. instead the X-Interactive header should be used by mechanisms which sort the initscripts. every initscript that has the X-Interactive header should be started before a display manager. > > in my situation, openvpn is started after gdm. openvpn requests a > > passphrase in order to unlock a private key. my mailserver (exim4) > > is started even after openvn. in case that i miss to change back to > > tty1 and enter the passphrase for openvpn, my mailserver is never > > started and that way my outgoing mail is not sent. > > If openvpn need to start before gdm, it need to declare this in its > init.d script header. > > Adding 'X-Start-Before: xdm kdm gdm ldm sdm' to the openvpn init.d > script header should solve it. i don't think that it's a bug in openvpn, but rather in the sysvinit/ initscripts/insserv system. greetings, jonas
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