Bug 537304 – sys-apps/openrc-0.13.8: regression: openrc crashes if a service has the same name as the runlevel it is in

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description William Hubbs 2015-01-22 01:58:40 UTC]

Here is the setup to create this crash:

1. create a new runlevel, /etc/init.d/foobar.
2. Add a service to this runlevel that has the same name as the
runlevel.
3. Stack the default runlevel in this new runlevel (the stacking is
irrelivent, I'm just suggesting it so all of your other services do not
go down)

Or, if you want, just create a service called default and add it to the
default runlevel.

Now, OpenRC will crash when you try to go into the new runlevel.

This worked in 0.12.4, so it is a regression.

[Comment 1 William Hubbs 2015-01-22 02:02:00 UTC]

The workaround for this is to make sure that your services do not have
the same names as the runlevels.

[Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2015-03-16 12:53:24 UTC]

*** Bug 543506 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2015-05-03 19:42:16 UTC]

The following pull request has been submitted on github for this issue;
I will look into it.

https://github.com/openrc/openrc/pull/53

[Comment 4 William Hubbs 2015-05-06 15:54:07 UTC]

This is included in 0.15.1.