Installation of init.d script using LSB way fails in RHEL 6

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Issue

  • Using the LSB way of install init.d scripts fails with following error in RHEL 6.

     install_initd fails on Required-Start: $local_fs


  •  This how it can reproduce the issue:
    1. create an init.d script with LSB init tags:
    ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides:          mbe.base
    # Required-Start:    $local_fs
    # Should-Start:
    # Required-Stop:
    # Default-Start:     1 3
    # Default-Stop:
    # Description:       Early MBE configuration
    ### END INIT INFO

    2. install the init.d script the LSB way:
    /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd /etc/init.d/mbe.base
    This will fail and no init.d scipt is installed

Resolution

The fix for this issue is preposed in RHEL 6.2 release.

Root Cause

  • Bugzilla for the issue : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706854

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