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

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Patrick Schoenfeld]
> 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.

When does this happen?  How can we reproduce it?  Currently your
request is to vague for me to know what do adress. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen