diff --git a/showconsole-1.16.dif b/showconsole-1.16.dif
index f62ea04..5928dcf 100644
--- a/showconsole-1.16.dif
+++ b/showconsole-1.16.dif
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
---- .#empty
-+++ .#empty	2012-01-30 17:44:30.343145442 +0000
-@@ -0,0 +1 @@
-+Place holder
+--- libconsole.c
++++ libconsole.c	2012-03-01 09:49:44.493932912 +0000
+@@ -902,16 +902,6 @@ void safeIO (void)
+ #ifdef DEBUG_SIGIO
+ 	if (nsigio < 0)
+ 	   goto skip;
+-#else
+-	if (nsigio < 0) {
+-	    /*
+-	     * Maybe access() does lie under kernel 2.6
+-	     * or the root file system is rw mounted
+-	     */
+-	    const char *runlevel = getenv("RUNLEVEL");
+-	    if (runlevel && (*runlevel < '0' || *runlevel > '6'))
+-		goto skip;
+-	}
+ #endif
+ 	if (access(BOOT_LOGFILE, W_OK) < 0) {
+ 	    if (errno != ENOENT && errno != EROFS)
diff --git a/sysvinit.changes b/sysvinit.changes
index 2b51463..f07dfaa 100644
--- a/sysvinit.changes
+++ b/sysvinit.changes
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ Wed Feb  8 12:35:24 UTC 2012 - werner@suse.de
 
 - Work around dully check script of obs 
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Feb  1 12:01:05 UTC 2012 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Avoid useless check for runlevel as access(2) now works on
+  kernel 3.0 and above, this fixes bnc#744538 
+
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 Tue Jan 31 16:40:18 UTC 2012 - werner@suse.de