[Mageia-dev] Please test dracut (mkinitrd replacement)

[Donald Stewart]

On 22 October 2011 17:01, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Donald Stewart at 22/10/11 14:58 did gyre and gimble:
>> I tested and these were the results.
>>
>> With standard sysvinit booting the system:
>> Startup and services running as normal, however system hangs at final
>> shutdown/restart
>
> I can confirm this too. I discovered this problem today. Tried to take a
> stab at fixing but in the end gave up as I didn't want to spend too much
> time on something that will ultimately be removed.
>
>> With systemd:
>> No sound, no networkmanager without service restart, even after that
>> the network would last for about 1-2 minutes the cut off. No
>> shutdown/restart whatsoever, kde would close then I would be dropped
>> to tty1.
>
> Interesting. This could be related to speedboot as Dexter said.
>
> Actually in cauldron updates/testing, I've pushed new
> initscripts+systemd package. In this setup, speedboot is automatically
> disabled when systemd is used as the init system.
>
> Col
>
>
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I will test and report later.

Thanks.