On my system I have /bin/sh symlinked to /bin/dash (app-shells/dash). Since the 0.8 upgrade of openrc the net.lo init.d fails to start: net.lo | * Bringing up interface lo net.lo |/lib/rc/sh/runscript.sh: 1: Bad substitution net.lo | * ERROR: net.lo failed to start Using einfo statements I tracked it to this loop in the start() function (lines 504-508): for module in ${MODULES}; do if [ "$(command -v "${module}_pre_start")" = "${module}_pre_start" ]; then ${module}_pre_start || exit $? fi done Unfortunately my shell scripting skills are not that good so I couldn't find the real error here, as for some modules the loop code passes fine. $MODULES is: "apipa arping bonding tuntap ccwgroup ethtool macchanger macnet netplugd wpa_supplicant ssidnet iproute2 pppd system vlan dhcpcd ip6to4" The error occurs when processing the module "ethtool" and trying to invoke the respective pre_start function (the if-branch is entered). When I set /bin/sh back to bash net.lo starts fine.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 360367 ***
