Bug 366551

Summary:	having a "= " somewhere in /etc/conf.d/net cause malfunction other start scripts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nico Baggus <mlspamcb>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nico Baggus 2011-05-09 07:58:38 UTC

During the startup of cups it appearantly failed because 
there was a line along 'routes_eth0= "default via ..."'
The startup failed because the handling of the /etc/conf.d/net failed.

I agree that the above syntax error is wrong, but it shouldn't that severly punished... 


Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
several services won't (re)start with the above bug.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-05-12 21:03:26 UTC

The cupsd init.d script depends on the net init.d script ("use net") so it fails when the conf.d script is bad - please trust me when I say that's a good thing.

Comment 2 Nico Baggus 2011-05-12 21:19:10 UTC

I do trust you on that, but should there be a possibility to validate, 
a configuration before such a small issue breaks a system by preventing a reboot?