/etc/init.d/rcS

[Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I managed to crash my system playing around with esd and on the
re-boot I noticed an odd err concerning /etc/init.d/rcS:

for i in /etc/rcS.d/S??*
do
	# Ignore dangling symlinks for now.
	[ ! -f "$i" ] && continue

	case "$i" in
		*.sh)
			# Source shell script for speed.
			(
				trap - INT QUIT TSTP
				set start
				. $i
			)
			;;
		*)
			# No sh extension, so fork subprocess.
			$i start
			;;
	esac
done

some of /etc/rcS.d/

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Jan 11  2002 S30setserial -> ../init.d/setserial
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Jan 11  2002 S35devpts.sh -> ../init.d/devpts.sh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Jan 11  2002 S35mountall.sh -> ../init.d/mountall.sh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Jan 11  2002 S39dns-clean -> ../init.d/dns-clean
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Jul 21 04:18 S39ifupdown -> ../init.d/ifupdown
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Jan 11  2002 S40hostname.sh -> ../init.d/hostname.sh

As soon as it finishes mountall.sh, it tries dns-clean, which causes a
SEGFAULT, and displays the line with "$i start" from above.

It runs hostname.sh correctly. In fact, it all runs fine except
dns-clean and ifupdown and this happens on a regular basis; this has
the unfortunate side-effect of making the networking sub-system think
that the interfaces are up later on during the boot sequence when they
are truly not up.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Thank you, Elizabeth