Historically I prefer to use «service» command (not default in openrc rc-service tool but sys-apps/init-system-helpers-1.49 (/sbin/service)) to handle services. When everything is OK it works fine. But when something in system is wrong it works strangely. For example just now I've had some issues with syslog-ng daemon. After I've killed it because service script failed to stop: # service syslog-ng start * WARNING: syslog-ng has already been started But there is no such process: # ps ax | grep syslog 10957 pts/4 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto syslog Trying to change state: # service syslog-ng stop * WARNING: syslog-ng is already stopped ??? At the same time rc-service works as expected: # rc-service syslog-ng start * Checking your configfile (/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf) ... [ ok ] * Starting syslog-ng ... Reporting this bug in Gentoo bugzilla becase it is OpenRC-related issue and upstream's (Debian) default is systemd. # einfo Portage 2.3.19 (python 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.25-r10, 4.9.49-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.9.49-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_II_X2_250_Processor-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 1793124 total, 36896 free KiB Swap: 8000364 total, 7709732 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:45:02 +0000 sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.34.11::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.12::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r2::gentoo, 1.15.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.29.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 6.4.0-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r3::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.13::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.25-r10::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage/gentoo sync-type: webrsync sync-umask: 022 sync-uri: rsync://gw-1.caotus.ru/gentoo-portage/ sync-user: portage:portage priority: -1000 local location: /usr/portage/local masters: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/env.d /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.1/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --verbose --autounmask=n" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildsyspkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks downgrade-backup ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync metadata-transfer multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ http://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/gentoo/" LANG="ru_RU.utf8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="ru ru_RU" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 ac3 acl alsa amd64 avi berkdb bold bzip2 cdr cli consolekit crypt cups cxx dbus djvu dri dvd flac fortran gdbm gif gtk iconv inotify jpeg jpeg2k lock modules mp3 multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg openmp pam pcre pdf png policykit qt3support readline seccomp session ssl tcpd thunar tiff udev udisks unicode utf8 vorbis xattr xcb xulrunner zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="3dnow 3dnowext mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4a" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="ru" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby22 ruby23" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=54dea0df66ba2fd29542d6fb59aff5afaf034eb3 commit 54dea0df66ba2fd29542d6fb59aff5afaf034eb3 Author: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-04-16 20:33:26 +0000 Commit: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-04-16 20:33:26 +0000 sys-apps/init-system-helpers: Revbump to remove OpenRC symlink mgmt This function is just insane letting a script try to manage started instead of letting the init system handle it Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/641836 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/649014 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.28, Repoman-2.3.9 .../files/revert-openrc-management.patch | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++ .../init-system-helpers-1.49-r1.ebuild | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+)