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Bug 214887 - sys-apps/openrc-0.2_pre20080325 segfaults on boot if /etc/rc.conf has problems
Summary: sys-apps/openrc-0.2_pre20080325 segfaults on boot if /etc/rc.conf has problems
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2008-03-26 14:38 UTC by Martin Väth
Modified: 2008-03-26 20:45 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Väth 2008-03-26 14:38:26 UTC 
If /etc/rc.conf is a symlink to a nonexistent file (in my case, by a mistake
of myself, a symlink to a file on another partition), openrc segfaults
at the very beginning of the boot process, even without printing anything.

I suggest that openrc should at least print a message what is wrong
(and perhaps even use default values for /etc/rc.conf and continue)
instead of just segfault - without any means to debug at this stage,
it took me several hours to find out what is wrong.
Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-26 15:12:26 UTC 
this will be fixed in openrc-0.2_pre20080326
Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-03-26 20:45:11 UTC 
fixed.