Bug 74181 – /etc/init.d/hostname is garbled data file in baselayout-1.11.7-r2

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stefan Kost 2004-12-12 05:08:29 UTC]

the /etc/init.d/hostname is not a script

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install baselayout-1.11.7-r2
2. file /etc/init.d/hostname
3.



Expected Results:  
fix the file ;)

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-12-12 13:16:36 UTC]

sounds like your system is broken

the tarball is just fine:
root@vapier 0 ~ # tar -jxf /usr/portage/distfiles/rc-scripts-1.6.7.tar.bz2 
root@vapier 0 ~ # file rc-scripts-1.6.7/init.d/hostname 
rc-scripts-1.6.7/init.d/hostname: a /sbin/runscript script text executable
root@vapier 0 ~ # head rc-scripts-1.6.7/init.d/hostname 
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/init.d/hostname,v 1.22 2004/11/15 15:43:28 vapier Exp $

depend() {
        need checkroot
}

start() {

[Comment 2 Stefan Kost 2004-12-12 22:27:11 UTC]

okay, the tarball is indeed correct, but why doesn't a reinstallation overwrites the broken file?

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-12-13 05:42:21 UTC]

try `emerge --noconfmem baselayout`