Bug 159999

Summary:	depscan.sh fails with screwed up /etc/init.d, service init order corrupted
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Majin Sniper <majinsniper>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Majin Sniper 2007-01-04 09:32:31 UTC

I somehow - don't ask me why or how it got there - had a symlink /etc/init.d/init.d pointing to /etc/init.d. This causes depscan.sh to fail and screw up the boot process (starting nfs before portmapper, keeping the system sleeping in a half initialized state for several minutes).
I took me about two month to find the problem. There were several posts in the Forum, which led me to a wrong direction.

The Error Message:
gawk: /lib/rcscripts/awk/cachedepends.awk:211: fatal: file `init.d' is a directory
bash: /var/lib/init.d/depcache: No such file or directory
Removing the link solved the problem, but a workaround in the cachedepends.awk would be nice :)

Greeting,
Majin Sniper

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-01-04 19:05:45 UTC

depscan.sh in svn makes sure that all links in /etc/init.d/ point to files