Bug 193340

Summary:	vmware-server init script causes spurious blank lines with RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Malte Starostik <bugs>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Remove spurious empty lines

Description Malte Starostik 2007-09-21 16:12:32 UTC

With RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes", vmware-server's init script causes alot of blank lines. Fix attached.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc
2. start or stop vmware-server
3.

Actual Results:  
some empty lines are printed

Expected Results:  
those lines shouldn't be output

Comment 1 Malte Starostik 2007-09-21 16:14:40 UTC

Created attachment 131531 [details, diff]
Remove spurious empty lines

Comment 2 Malte Starostik 2007-09-21 16:16:18 UTC

All of this refers to app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.3.44356

Comment 3 Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-09-21 17:00:00 UTC

Malte, 

Thanks for the patch (although it appears to be backwards, but I think I've got the idea of your fixes)!  5:)  I'm not entirely certain why there's that extra echo hanging around there, this is startup code that's been around for ages.  The reason for the einfon rather than einfo is so that the eend can properly finish the same line that's being output, which may not affect parallel mode, but I'm fairly sure would introduce spurious new lines to non-parallel mode.

I'll take a look into the issue and see if there's a good solution for both parallel and non-parallel startups, but please be aware this is low on our list of priorities...

Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2010-07-14 20:53:05 UTC

The version referenced here is long gone from the tree, so maybe this bug can be resolved?

Comment 5 Malte Starostik 2010-07-18 21:18:57 UTC

Not too sure.  Looking at http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-emulation/vmware-server/files/vmware-server.rc?revision=1.6&view=markup those einfon/echo-pairs are still in place.  I don't use the package anymore though, but I can give it a try sometime this week.

Comment 6 Vadim Kuznetsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-17 13:51:42 UTC

vmware server was removed from the tree. Bug 354383.