Comment 18 for bug 85014

It is important that this is fixed properly. With jigdo broken and now this, it's hard for Ubuntu to be taken seriously.

Regarding the proposed "if" statement:

            if [ -n "$RL" ]; then
                telinit $RL
            else
                telinit 2
            fi

This looks unnecessary to me. Either a runlevel was specified as a kernel parameter and this if statement gets triggered (and $RL is set), or it isn't. If it isn't, then the last part of the script will kick in:

        else
            telinit 2
        fi
end script

It looks like it was just copied from the "-r /etc/inittab" section, where inittab might exist but the initdefault line may not, but it is unnecessary in the proposed patch.