New initscripts package and daemons [SOLVED]

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Good Sunday to everyone: I've updated this morning my Arch, using pacman, and, apart from KDE SC 4.7, I found out a new initscripts package, initscripts 2011.07.3-1.
Ok, all done, the problem is that, every time I boot my system up, I get this error message about iptables and hal (dbus, to be more precise):
a daemon is starting another daemon. This is unlikely to work as intended
This is the relevant part of my /etc/rc.conf file:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng iptables hal sshd wicd mysqld clamav @spamd)
I have to say both iptables and hal work the right way, but it's true also that, before updating initscripts, no messages of this type had ever come out...
Any suggestions?
Burroughs.
Last edited by Burroughs (2011-08-02 13:41:33)

Answer 1

Burroughs wrote:
Good Sunday to everyone: I've updated this morning my Arch, using pacman, and, apart from KDE SC 4.7, I found out a new initscripts package, initscripts 2011.07.3-1.
Ok, all done, the problem is that, every time I boot my system up, I get this error message about iptables and hal (dbus, to be more precise):
a daemon is starting another daemon. This is unlikely to work as intended
This is the relevant part of my /etc/rc.conf file:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng iptables hal sshd wicd mysqld clamav @spamd)
I have to say both iptables and hal work the right way, but it's true also that, before updating initscripts, no messages of this type had ever come out...
As someone already pointed out, the warning is new. However, the wrong behavior is not. So if everything worked fine before, it will continue to work ok.
The reason for the warning is that when a daemon starts another daemon we don't have any information about this dependency at shutdown, and they will likely be shut down in the wrong order. This caused problems for some packages. We have fixed most rc scripts to not do this any more, some still remain, but they are mostly going away anyway (like hal).