There is nothing wrong with that line of the init script. Whatever was preventing the 'ondemand' governor from being chosen is unrelated to the use of '-- background'.
So there may be (or may have been) a bug preventing the governor being set, but there's not enough information here to explain why. The ondemand init script has been working fine for the vast majority of users.
There is nothing wrong with that line of the init script. Whatever was preventing the 'ondemand' governor from being chosen is unrelated to the use of '-- background'.
So there may be (or may have been) a bug preventing the governor being set, but there's not enough information here to explain why. The ondemand init script has been working fine for the vast majority of users.