rc-status reports several of my rc scripts from both boot and default as being 'broken'. The status reported by the scripts themselves (when run with 'status') reports they are started. The scripts in particular were keymaps, domainname, consolefont, net.lo, urandom, rmnologin, bootmisc from runlevel boot, and local, netmount from default. Running each of these rc scripts with the 'broken' parameter (to display missing INEED deps) shows all dependencies satisified in all cases (or, like local, there simply are none.) If I remove and re-add these scripts to the appropriate levels, then their status as reported by rc-status becomes 'started'. I do not know when this started, and this install is fairly old (but otherwise well-maintained.) I can reproduce this across reboots, with the same scripts showing up as broken, but I haven't tried rebooting since my proposed workaround. I'll post a comment when I do. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run rc-status (or rc-status boot) Actual Results: Several services (but always the same set) show up as 'broken' without obvious reasons for doing so. The service scripts themselves run and seem to be fine. Expected Results: Correctly reported the state of my services, telling me why they aren't on if there really is an error. Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow S3TC X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 async audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bl blender-game bluetooth bonobo bootsplash browserplugin bzip2 cardbus cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cegui cg chroot cjk cpudetection crypt css cups curl devil dga dhcp dio djbfft dmx doc double-precision dts dvd dvdr dvdread ecc editor edl eds emacs emboss encode enscript escreen exif expat extras fam fat fbcon ffcall ffmpeg figlet firefox flac flood fmod font-server foomaticdb fortran freetds gcj gdbm gif gimpprint glep glitz glut gmail gmailtimestamps gnome gnustep gnutls gphoto2 gpm gps gs gsm gsnd gssapi gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile gzip hfs hpn http icecast icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 inifile inkjar innkeywords innodb intl irc irda irmc jabber jack jack-tmpfs jai java javacomm javamail javascript jbig jce jfs jikes jimi jms jmx joystick jp2 jpeg jta junit jython kde kdepim kerberos keyscrub kqemu krb4 ladcca largeterminal latex lcd lcms leim libcaca libclamav libdsk libg++ libsamplerate libvisual libwww lirc live lj lm_sensors logitech-mouse ltsp lua lzo lzw mad maildir mailwrapper mapeditor maps math mccp mcve mgetty mikmod mime ming mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng mod mod_irc mod_muc mod_pubsub mozcalendar mozdevelop mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer msn multi-tty multicall multitarget musepack music nas ncurses neXt net network neural nls nntp no-htdocs nocd nodrm nptl nptlonly ntfs numeric nvidia oav objc offensive ofx ogdi ogg oggvorbis ogre on-the-fly-crypt openal openexr opengl openntpd openssh osc oscar pam pam_chroot parse-clocks pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl pfpro pg-hier physfs plotutils plugin png pnp posix ppds print python qemu-fast qmail qt quicktime quotes rar readline real recode reiserfs remix remote rhino rogue rpc rss rtc sasl savedconfig sblive scanner screen sdl sensord serial session sftp sftplogging sharedmem shorten silc silverxp skey slp smime sms sndfile soap sockets socks5 sounds source sox spamassassin speedo speex spell sse sse2 ssl stencil-buffer stream streamzap stroke subp subtitles subversion svg svgz symlink sysfs sysvipc szip tcpd tetex tga theora threads tidy tiff tools transcode transparent-proxy truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1 type1-fonts udev underscores unicode ups urandom usb utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vcdimager verbose videos vidix virus-scan visualization vlm vnc voice vorbis web webdav wifi win32codecs winbind wma123 wmf xanim xatrix xfs xim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xrandr xscreensaver xsl xslt xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zeroconf zlib zvbi userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 73701 [details] ( rc-status boot ; rc-status ) > rc-status.log the stopped (and in fact busted) tomcat-5 is unrelated.
The workaround appears to fix it across reboots as well.
The broken status refers to a broken symbolic link in /etc/runlevels/$runlevel The broken links were caused either by a portage bug, the baselayout ebuild or a stage snapshot. Broken links caused rc service ordering for startup/shutdown to be wrong. I've added a message to rc-status to reflect this and tell you how to fix it. Your workaround is 100% the correct fix btw :)
Created attachment 83846 [details] Output of rc-status (-s)
Will be fixed in pre17.
pre17 is out
*** Bug 128696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
