If running on a machine that doesn't support ACPI (such as qemu/kvm virtual machines), the acpi initscript spews /etc/init.d/acpid: need ACPI_PROC_EVENT support in kernel. //zmena podle 260181 It should probably just silently not start if the /proc/acpi dir doesn't exist. While cosmetic, this is highly visible with the Fedora 8 live images in situations that are likely to be tried by reviewers, etc.
Hello, I'm not sure, if it is good to do not print anything. Because if no message is printed, then someone can assume that everything is fine. I think better solution is print "Starting acpid daemon [failure]" and in /var/log/messages have more info about a problem. Zdenek
The normal behavior of many services is "hardware not present, initscript exits early and silently". So basically very early in the initscript, just [ -d /proc/acpi ] || exit 0
New build should show up in tomorrow's rawhide.