[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#595431: Aborting fsck aborts all scripts in rcS.d

[Kel Modderman]

On Saturday 04 September 2010 06:39:49 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Package: insserv
> Version: 1.14.0-2
> Severity: critical
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during boot /etc/rcS.d/S13checkfs.sh starts a filesystem check (hasn't
> been checked for 197 days) as well as giving some errors for missing
> devices. Since I didn't want to wait for the fsck before fixing the
> missing devices I aborted the check with crlt-c. This resulted in the
> fsck to be aborted but then also skipped all further rcS.d scripts
> saying:
> 
> Running scripts in rcS.d/ took 41 seconds.
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> 
> Given that filesystem weren't mounted or anything that didn't work out
> well leaving the system unusable.
> 
> This is a serious regressions from before insserv. The old behaviour
> was to display a message asking for the root password to get a shell
> or ctrl-D to continue booting.


How does changing /etc/init.d/rc with the below patch modify behaviour?

Thanks, Kel.

--- rc~
+++ rc
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ on_exit() {
 trap on_exit EXIT # Enable emergency handler
 
 # Ignore CTRL-C only in this shell, so we can interrupt subprocesses.
-trap ":" INT QUIT TSTP
+trap "" INT QUIT TSTP
 
 # Set onlcr to avoid staircase effect.
 stty onlcr 0>&1