After the upgrade to bash-3.1 some essential sysvinit scripts abort with syntax errors. I had to downgrade to bash-3.0-r14 to be able to use my system again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to bash-3.1 2. Boot your system with sysvinit 3. Actual Results: /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh and /etc/init.d/net.lo fail with syntax errors # rc /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: ` local -a RC_DAEMONS=() RC_PIDFILES=()' /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 286: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 286: ` local -a provide=() provide_list=() after=() dead=() sorted=() sortedp=()' * ERROR: "/etc/init.d/net.eth0" has syntax errors in it; aborting ... /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: ` local -a RC_DAEMONS=() RC_PIDFILES=()' /etc/init.d/net.lo: line 286: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /etc/init.d/net.lo: line 286: ` local -a provide=() provide_list=() after=() dead=() sorted=() sortedp=()' * ERROR: "/etc/init.d/net.lo" has syntax errors in it; aborting ... /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: ` local -a RC_DAEMONS=() RC_PIDFILES=()' /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: ` local -a RC_DAEMONS=() RC_PIDFILES=()' /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 286: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 286: ` local -a provide=() provide_list=() after=() dead=() sorted=() sortedp=()' * ERROR: "/etc/init.d/net.eth0" has syntax errors in it; aborting ... /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-daemon.sh: line 328: ` local -a RC_DAEMONS=() RC_PIDFILES=()' /etc/init.d/net.lo: line 286: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /etc/init.d/net.lo: line 286: ` local -a provide=() provide_list=() after=() dead=() sorted=() sortedp=()' * ERROR: "/etc/init.d/net.lo" has syntax errors in it; aborting ... * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "sshd" was not started. # emerge info Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal imlib ipv6 java jpeg lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png postgres python quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl svg tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xv xvid zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115142 ***
