rc crashes if booting w/o initrd

[Martin Emrich]

Hi!

I compiled a custom kernel without an initrd or initramfs. After rebooting
today, my computer printed weird messages about /etc/init.d/rc (roughly '" * 2
+ 0" is not a valid expression'), the whole boot process was bogged.

It turned out that a shell variable inside /etc/init.d/rc, used in a
calculation, was not initialized if /dev/initramfs/progress_state
was missing, which was the case with my new kernel. This patch fixes it:

--- rc.old 2006-01-09 20:20:39.000000000 +0100
+++ rc.new 2006-01-09 20:20:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@
         fi

        PROGRESS_STATE=0
+ progress_size=33
        if [ -f /dev/initramfs/progress_state ]; then
                . /dev/initramfs/progress_state
                progress_size=$(((100 - $PROGRESS_STATE) / 3))

Ciao

Martin

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

As the system does not boot (I had to "init=/bin/sh"), I set this one to "critical"

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Oops, I forgot to mention: I run Dapper Drake (last update right after the crash)

Ciao

Martin

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

After dist-upgrade this morning (Version: 2.86.ds1-6ubuntu1), the bug is fixed.

Thanks!

Ciao

Martin