Bug#609959: initscripts: "too many loops!" when bootlogd is enable

2011-03-21 Thread Francis Russell
So, I took a look at the sysvinit source and the true problem appears to be that loop checking the the dependency makefile parser is hideously inefficient. It has a built in check for when loop-checking is doing too much work then bails out. This is what's getting triggered. This is clearly a know

Bug#609959: initscripts: "too many loops!" when bootlogd is enable

2011-03-20 Thread Francis Russell
Package: initscripts Version: 2.88dsf-13.1 Followup-For: Bug #609959 Any progress on determining the cause of this bug? I'm experiencing it with the version of initscripts in testing. Francis -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing')