*REQUEST* InitNG

[Gnobody]

We need initNG! This will half our boot times!! :razz:


Click Me! (http://gentoo-wiki.com/Initng)

[Burgundavia]

Ok, there are 2 things wrong with this. (Well maybe there are more)

1. Backports are not the place to ask for such low level stuff
2. Init-ng is seriously untested, and maybe considered for Breezy+1
3. Breezy does not have init-ng

Corey

[jdong]

Corey, that's 3 ;) LOL

What he said. I've installed initng on a test machine before... In its current state, it's more of a Gentoo toy than anything else... Supporting initng will require a complete rewrite of all init scripts on the system.. not something I can do... heck not something Ubuntu can do for quite a while.

[8FootSativa]

There are Debian packages for InitNG...I've wanted to try it but I'm worried it will bork things.

http://forum.initng.thinktux.net/viewtopic.php?t=29

[Burgundavia]

InitNG requires a whole lot of changes, at a very low level. That is not the kind of thing I would undertake unless you know the boot sequence forward and backward.

Corey

[AndersAA]

InitNG requires a whole lot of changes, at a very low level. That is not the kind of thing I would undertake unless you know the boot sequence forward and backward.

Corey

What he said. I've installed initng on a test machine before... In its current state, it's more of a Gentoo toy than anything else... Supporting initng will require a complete rewrite of all init scripts on the system.. not something I can do... heck not something Ubuntu can do for quite a while.

current svn (and the latest version) should boot an ubuntu system without any modification needed to any scripts. (I'm neuron, one of the ubuntu dev's)

[8FootSativa]

current svn (and the latest version) should boot an ubuntu system without any modification needed to any scripts. (I'm neuron, one of the ubuntu dev's)

So I can just install the .deb and boot using InitNG? No changing Grub or anything? I'd like to try it on my Kubuntu box...

[AndersAA]

So I can just install the .deb and boot using InitNG? No changing Grub or anything? I'd like to try it on my Kubuntu box...

you will have to modify grub manually

[8FootSativa]

you will have to modify grub manually

O-tay. :)

[Gnobody]

I get a bunch of errors on boot and I get "failed to initialize HAL daemon" when I log in to Gnome. This is with the latest SVN build of InitNG.

[tristan]

I had a play with v0.1.3 of initNG and while it did speed up boot times a bit (not dramatically), I also had the dbus/hald problem which prevents gnome-volume-manager from working (ie no removable media automounting).

Looks like promising software, but I think it might be a bit immature to replace init on the next release of ubuntu....

[AndersAA]

I get a bunch of errors on boot and I get "failed to initialize HAL daemon" when I log in to Gnome. This is with the latest SVN build of InitNG.

"bunch of errors on boot" doesn't really tell me much...

I had a play with v0.1.3 of initNG and while it did speed up boot times a bit (not dramatically), I also had the dbus/hald problem which prevents gnome-volume-manager from working (ie no removable media automounting).

Looks like promising software, but I think it might be a bit immature to replace init on the next release of ubuntu....

should be fixed in svn atleast.


and it's defenatly not ready to replace sysvinit

[kamstrup]

I get a bunch of errors on boot and I get "failed to initialize HAL daemon" when I log in to Gnome. This is with the latest SVN build of InitNG.
Same here. But it *almost* works :D It is very fast indeed, but it doesn't work after I reboot. - Have to reboot with ordinary init to get it working again.

I totally agree with the backporters. This is not exactly backport material...