Bug 20081 – no /etc/runlevels/single with baselayout-1.8.5.8

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) 2003-04-27 20:23:29 UTC]

with baselayout 1.8.5.8 i get no /etc/runlevels/single (or
/etc/runlevels/single/.keep). in fact, the CONTENTS files shows nothing from
/etc/runlevels.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
baselayout merged during install. re-emerged baselayout, same prob.



Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups gif imlib java jpeg libwww mmx mpeg ncurses
pdflib png qt quicktime sdl spell svga xml2 gdbm berkdb slang readline X tcpd
pam ssl motif -3dnow acpi -arts cdr doc emacs encode ethereal gd -gnome -gpm
-gtk imap innodb jikes -kde ldap -libg++ -mikmod maildir mbox mozilla mysql -nls
oav oggvorbis -opengl perl python samba sasl slp sse tiff -truetype usb xml
-xmms -xv zlib"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync6.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-04-28 14:46:17 UTC]

seems like fixed with 1.8.5.9

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-04-28 14:46:32 UTC]

reopen if still occour

[Comment 3 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) 2003-04-29 01:09:14 UTC]

my machine has no /etc/runlevels/single or /etc/runlevel/*/.keep ... looking at the ebuild there is this section in src_install():

        # Set up default runlevel symlinks
        local bar=""
        for foo in default boot nonetwork single
        do
                keepdir /etc/runlevels/${foo}
                for bar in $(cat ${S}/rc-lists/${foo})
                do
                        [ -e ${S}/init.d/${bar} ] && \
                                dosym /etc/init.d/${bar} /etc/runlevels/${foo}/${bar}
                done
        done




is it being executed ?
reading that code would imply that /etc/runlevels/single and the .keep files should be created upon install of baselayout, yet they are not.

seems like this section right before is the culprit:

        # Skip this if we are merging to ROOT
        [ "${ROOT}" = "/" ] && return 0

why is this there?

[Comment 4 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) 2003-04-29 01:11:34 UTC]

i asked a few people on irc. seems like those of us who upgraded baselayout at somepoint do no have /etc/runlevels/single ... perhaps and older baselayout did not put the .keep files in and during the upgrade the dir got wiped out. the other runlevel dirs would have remained because they have symlinks in them.

[Comment 5 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-04-29 14:40:13 UTC]

Basically those only get created at creation of the build image, to keep changes
the user did in tackt.

The REAL problem is in the build images .... seems for some reason the single
dir is not there .... anybody knowing the process of creating the build image
well have any idea why?  Daniel?

[Comment 6 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-05-20 15:25:23 UTC]

From baselayout-1.8.6.7 and later, single works again, and do so even
without an /etc/runlevel/single.