Re: [kernel] char/raw.c devfs support

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > BTW, Juan: I haven't yet received a followup about what was going
> > wrong with your /lib/dev-state and /dev/log problems.
>
> I don't know really, I think that it was a devfsd package here that
> got a wrong config file :(

the /dev/log problem has been traced back to the following portion of
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit :


# Restart devfsd actions now that the filesystems are ready
if [ -c /dev/.devfsd ]; then
  if [ -x /sbin/devfsd ]; then
      # cleanup dynamic desktop directories before calling devfsd actions
      rm -f /usr/share/gnome/desktop/* /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop/*
      
      action "Running devfsd actions: " killall -HUP devfsd
  fi
fi


sometimes, the bootstraping process wait for minutes because of some
sort of race between devfsd and minilogd (remeber syslogd hasn't yet
be started since it's a service launched after rc.sysinit let rc play
with init levels.

we've found a solution: make a service of the previous piece of script
and run it very late (ie in 99th position whereas syslogd service has
a priority of 88).