doc: init(8) manpage missing options
Bug #449883 reported by
Sam Vilain
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| upstart |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) | ||
| upstart (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) | ||
Bug Description
After doing some disk-fu with Karmic Koala to replace a failed disk, I couldn't boot up off the new disk. However, I could boot with 'init=/bin/sh' successfully. What was going wrong? Being familiar only with SysV-style init I was lost as to how to debug.
Apparently though there is a --debug kernel command-line option which I could have used. This should be documented on the upstart/init(8) man page, along with any other useful options and brief information to help a sysadmin or old-time Unix user to get oriented with upstart and getting that system back up.
| summary: |
- man page: describe '--debug' for diagnosing bootup problems + doc: init(8) manpage missing options |
| Changed in upstart: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in upstart: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| milestone: | none → 0.6.5 |
| Changed in upstart (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in upstart: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Scott James Remnant (scott) |
| Changed in upstart (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Scott James Remnant (scott) |
Revision history for this message
| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in upstart: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in upstart (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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0.6.5 2010-02-04 "Our last, best hope for victory"
* Since libnih has been separated out into its own project, Upstart
no longer includes its source and now uses the installed version by
default.
* The external nih-dbus-tool means that cross-compilation is trivial,
the path to it may be overriden with NIH_DBUS_TOOL=... as an
argument to configure. (Bug: #426740)
* Developers may still build against a local libnih source tree by
passing --with-
* There is a new initctl "reload" command, with matching
/sbin/reload symlink. This sends the SIGHUP signal to the running
main process of the named job instance.
* Event operator matches in jobs now support "!=" in addition to the
usual "=", e.g.:
start on net-device-added INTERFACE!=eth*
(Bug: #513035)
* Moved D-Bus system bus reconnection trigger from SIGHUP to SIGUSR1,
since SIGHUP is already used for a forced configuration reload and
causes Upstart to "forget" state.
* Fixed bug where the default runlevel would be lost when an
/etc/inittab file exists without an initdefault line. (Bug: #405847)
* Fixed "Unhandled error" message from shutdown. (Bug: #426332)
* Fixed "Unhandled error" assertion crash from Upstart child
processes when failing to spawn a job. (Bug: #451917)
* No longer holds /dev/console open, so the SAK SysRq key will not
kill Upstart. (Bug: #486005)
* Restored sync() call before reboot().
* Added missing OPTIONS section to init(8) manpage. (Bug: #449883)