Bug 214887

Summary:	sys-apps/openrc-0.2_pre20080325 segfaults on boot if /etc/rc.conf has problems
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin Väth <martin>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin Väth 2008-03-26 14:38:26 UTC

If /etc/rc.conf is a symlink to a nonexistent file (in my case, by a mistake
of myself, a symlink to a file on another partition), openrc segfaults
at the very beginning of the boot process, even without printing anything.

I suggest that openrc should at least print a message what is wrong
(and perhaps even use default values for /etc/rc.conf and continue)
instead of just segfault - without any means to debug at this stage,
it took me several hours to find out what is wrong.

Comment 1 Roy Marples 2008-03-26 15:11:17 UTC

Fixed, thanks

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/openrc.git;a=commit;h=00fe6eab7a2a84e81f31503293094691c32102d6

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-26 15:12:26 UTC

this will be fixed in openrc-0.2_pre20080326

Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-26 20:45:11 UTC

fixed.