[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#545448: invoke-rc.d should indicate whats wrong when not starting services

[Patrick Schoenfeld]

Package: sysv-rc
Severity: normal

Hi,

recently I stumbled across some behaviour in invoke-rc.d which
I consider somehow broken. When trying to start a service
with invoke-rc.d it sometimes refuses to start the service,
without a notice whats wrong. Of course not starting services
under some circumstances is OK, but not telling the user
whats wrong isn't.

I played with the mind of reporting this as a wishlist item,
but I really consider this a bug, because one should not need
to _debug_ a 450-line shell script just to find out why it
decides that a certain init script should not be started.

Regards,
Patrick