On my testing machine, I recently rebooted into kernel 5.10.26 for the security update. Since then, the default runlevel is skipped and " " (blank) runlevel is attempted to be started and succeeds somewhat. It appears to run shutdown killing procs and remounting ro, then start most services in default anyway. /run/openrc/softlevel is empty until I do 'openrc default' to bring some sanity. Rebuilt OpenRC to be sure but it persists The new glibc[-crypt] is applied here but do not know if that is a factor. 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Created attachment 726133 [details] rc.log Log of services trying to debug
Reverting to 5.10.26 makes it boot normally
Further debugging is saying that argv[1] is an empty string (not NULL) for reasons yet to be determined. This passes the rc_runlevel_exists check and then confuses OpenRC on what to start.
This is dracut's exposing the fault. Rolling back to an earlier initramfs fixes booting. But still please guard against empty strings for argv[1]
https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/431
AThis is fixed in 0.43.5.
