While adding alarm support I managed to get devlock working properly and have it showing the keypad at boot up.

I then discovered that the maemo-control-services plugin puts all services at S/K20 causing several of them to die hundreds of times during boot and never start. The alarm service is one of them but moving it to a higher value got it to start.

Could one of you who hasn't used that plugin or tampered with the rc links run ls /etc/rc?.d/ and send me the output?