interactive boot fails when parallel is enabled

[jekarlson@gmail.com]

I have in /etc/rc.conf
rc_interactive="YES"

While I boot and press 'i' I fail to get any interactivity.

This used to work on at least openrc 0.3.

This feature is very nice, while Xorg has the new easy to use hal interface that disables hard to use keyboard every now and then ;-)

[roy]

Pressing I works here.
Have you enabled parallel startup? Does your keyboard require a working keymap for I to be mapped correctly, or kernel modules loaded?

[jekarlson@gmail.com]

Yes I am using parallel startup, it didn't matter before.

I use finnish qwerty keymap which is probably the same as the default us for the letter i.

Any and all kernelspace keyboard support is compiled in my linux-2.6.28.

Btw using gentoo ~amd64 system, if you didn't guess.

[jekarlson@gmail.com]

Did some retesting apparently I was just too slow twice.

Would there be any way to extend the perioid in which openRC is receptive to 'i' press, obviously this cannot be done for services that have been already started though.

[roy]

The issue is purely parallel. When enabled, each service starts right away and waits for the services it needs to start. rc controls the interactive stuff, not the services. Changing this would be non trivial.