/sbin/runscript from openrc (called as /etc/init.d/anything, like /etc/init.d/ssh start for example) will fail miserably if /run/openrc is cleaned, missing or something. It somehow concludes that the service is already starting and do nothing. Note that I'm aware that /run/openrc is not supposed to be cleaned. I'm filling next bug about that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. somehow manage to have empty /run 2. /etc/init.d/anything start Actual Results: * WARNING: anything is already starting Expected Results: Ideally, fill /run/openrc/ correctly and start the service. If not possible, at least provide warning message which make sense. Note that surprisingly, calling rc-status DOES fill /run/openrc with enough directories to make runscript behave correctly, so perhaps call some function which rc-status calls before wrongly concluding anything is starting? Portage 2.2.7 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.6.3-hardenednopie, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 3.0.6-gentoo-64 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.0.6-gentoo-64-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3000+-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3296612 total, 375368 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:45:02 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.8-r3, 2.7.5-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::<unknown repository>, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6-r1, 1.5-r1, 1.6.3-r1, 1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3::<unknown repository>, 2.18-r3, 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 3.4.6-r2, 4.3.4, 4.4.6-r1, 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 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