[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#397900: erroneous runlevel during boot-up sequence

[martin f krafft]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.86.ds1-33
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d

invoke-rc.d determines the runlevel when invoked, using

  /sbin/runlevel | sed 's/.*\ //'

first off, I have no idea why you're escaping the space, and second,
unfortunately, the result is not always correct; as a consequence,
invoke-rc.d complains about being invoked during shutdown during
system startup, because I asked my system to restart the ntp service
via invoke-rc.d whenever the network link status changes (via
a little shell script in /etc/network/if-up.d/.

See the following boot.log excerpt, for which I've set -x in
invoke-rc.d:

[...]
Sat Oct 21 10:40:56 2006: Cleaning /tmp...done.
Sat Oct 21 10:41:17 2006: Cleaning /var/run...done.
Sat Oct 21 10:41:18 2006: Cleaning /var/lock...done.
Sat Oct 21 10:41:18 2006: Setting up networking....
Sat Oct 21 10:41:19 2006: Configuring network interfaces...Reloading Squid configuration files.
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: done.
[now invoke-rc.d is called:]
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + RUNLEVEL=/sbin/runlevel
[...]
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + INITSCRIPTID=ntp
[...]
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + ACTION=restart
[...]
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + /sbin/runlevel
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + sed s/.*\ //
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + RL=6
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + test ! 0
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + test x6 = x0
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + test x6 = x6
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + FORCE=yes
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + RETRY=yes
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + POLICYHELPER=
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + BEQUIET=
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + printerror ----------------------------------------------------
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + test x = x
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + basename /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + echo invoke-rc.d: ----------------------------------------------------
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: invoke-rc.d: ----------------------------------------------------
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + printerror WARNING: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown sequence
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + test x = x
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + basename /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + echo invoke-rc.d: WARNING: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown sequence
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: invoke-rc.d: WARNING: invoke-rc.d called during shutdown sequence
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + printerror enabling safe mode: initscript policy layer disabled
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + test x = x
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + basename /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + echo invoke-rc.d: enabling safe mode: initscript policy layer disabled
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: invoke-rc.d: enabling safe mode: initscript policy layer disabled
Sat Oct 21 10:41:21 2006: + printerror ----------------------------------------------------
[...]

At the time the invoke-rc.d script runs, /sbin/runlevel returns "2 6".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (750, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (250, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

sysv-rc depends on no packages.

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-17     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

-- no debconf information

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