initdefault has no effect

[Sharpe, Sam J]

Mike Burger wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
>> Mike Burger wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> I'm still doing some digging.
>>>     
>>
>> I thought there was a thread on this very topic in a previous
>> release, but I can't find it (maybe it was in fedora-list
>> rather than fedora-test-list), anyway it is a very old bug
>> I'm surprised is still around.
>>
>> The script in the upstart code that searches /etc/inittab to
>> find the runlevel was not ignoring commented out lines, so
>> whatever line it found first, that's the one it grabbed the
>> runlevel from regardless of the comment prefix.
>>   
> 
> Bugger.
> 
> This *is* the Fedora list, BTW, rather than the fedora-test list.
> 
> However, I pop in and out of this list, given the level of traffic and 
> my availability to monitor and try to answer questions (when I *think* 
> that I'm actually capable of answering them), based on workload and 
> travel, so it may be possible that I completely missed that thread, 
> somewhere.
> 
> Since I never really noticed this in F9...the only F9 systems I had were 
> my laptop and workstation, so I didn't have much reason to 
> customize)...I had no reason to investigate, either.
> 
> If this is a filed bug, and you happen to have the bugzilla report ID, 
> please forward.  I'll also try to dig into it and see if I can find it, 
> too...I'd like to see this one squashed...or, at the very least, verify 
> which script it is and see if I can figure out the logic to fix it.
> 

The script concerned is /etc/event.d/rcS (and /etc/event.d/rcS-sulogin - 
both are owned by the initscripts RPM.

They do this:
runlevel=$(/bin/awk -F ':' '$3 == "initdefault" { print $2 }' /etc/inittab)

i.e. they don't ignore the line if $1 contains ; or #

They should probably do something more like:
runlevel=$(/bin/awk -F ':' '($3 == "initdefault") && ($1 !~ /(#|;)/) { 
print $2 }' /etc/inittab)

I've assumed that # and ; are comments and aren't allowed in the 
runlevel descriptions.

--
Sam