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

Sat Oct 22 18:03:40 CEST 2011

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
+>
+>
+> --
+>
+> Colin Guthrie
+> colin(at)mageia.org
+> http://colin.guthr.ie/
+>
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+>
+
+I will test and report later.
+
+Thanks.
+