Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org> writes: > Responding to myself to provide a bit of additional information: > > Shérab (2015/08/20 14:19 +0200): >> Dear all, >> >> I'm observing something with brltty that I do not understand. >> The brltty that is started at boot is configured one way, but if I do >> /etc/init.d/brltty stop && sleep 2 && /etc/init.d/brltty start >> >> Then I get an instance of brltty that is configured differently. >> >> As if the two processes were not using the same preferences file. > > Indeed. The brltty that is run at boot time uses /etc/brltty.prefs, > whereas the brltty started manually uses /var/lib/brltty/brltty.pres. So > what remains to be understood is why it is so and any idea on this point > will be warmly appreciated. Do you have START_IN_INITRAMFS enabled? If so, the problem is likely due to the fact that /var/lib/brltty/brltty.prefs is not copied to the initramfs during creation. This is arguably a bug. However, BRLTTY used to restart during boot if START_IN_INITRAMFS is enabled, to avoid other problems around BrlAPI sockets going lost. I guess we need to re-evaluate the whole START_IN_INITRAMFS situation now that systemd is being used. The systemd services file does *not* do the restart. It appears as if Debian is planning to switch away from initramfs-tools to dracut. If this happens, we will have to rewrite the START_IN_INITRAMFS support anyway. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕
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