Solved Debian update - keyboard responsive, Lennart Sorrenson not so much

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 12:43:55PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I am installing a VM right now.  I will have to go see about setting up
> a USB keyboard in KVM since I think the default is an AT or PS/2 keyboard
> which might not break the same way a USB keyboard would.

So it turns out insserv is being helpful.  It politely ignores the user's
request to stop udev in runlevel 2 or 3 because there are things to be
started that depend on it.  So insserv simply figures the user doesn't
know what they are doing and makes the best of it.

If insserv was not in use and the plain sysvinit was in use, then the
kill of udev would have happened and the system would have been slightly
worse off (I am not sure loosing udev after booting is really that huge
a deal, but could be annoying).

So the reason the kill script isn't breaking things is that udev is
ignoring it for being incompatible with the other requests for the
runlevel.  It is however also not helping anything and could be confusing.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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