rc error during init of the system

[Marcin Piwko]

Hello.
Fore some reboots, I suffer from strange behaviour of /sbin/rc script, that normally executes startup tasks bu launching apropriate scripts with the dot (.) command.
For instance it executes
. /sbin/rc.utils
and other scripts.
And here is the problem: the dot (.) command instead reading into memory and than executin script, aborts and displays always the same message (here is the sample):

# . /sbin/rc1.d/K630named start
sh: Syntax error: `)' is not expected.

And so on and on during other scripts.
It results with the system without inetd started and other important things.

I suppose /sbin/sh is faulty of not executing dot (.) internal command well,but checked versions with other machines and it looks well.

Please help !

[Steven E. Protter]

Is any of this going into /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log?

If so, post some of it please.

Do the scripts run if done as root from the command line after boot?

[John Palmer]

Hi,

You are suffering from a faulty configuration script in /etc/rc.config.d.

Some of the startup scripts, named being one call /etc/rc.config. This calls most files in /etc/rc.config.d as subscripts in order to set environment variables. One of these has a syntax error.

Have a look at which configuration scripts have changed recently. Test each possible suspect script by running it e.g.
. /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

Regards,
John

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Have a look in '/etc/rc.config.d/'. You probably have a bungled file therein. The files in this directory are sourced by '/etc/rc.config'. You can run this (and or modify a copy of it, having added an echo statement to announce the file it is analyzing in order to assist you in finding the culprit.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Marcin Piwko]

I disagree the problem lies in some of the scripts inside the rc.config.d directory. The message is ALWAYS the same, no matter which script is executed sequentially by rc. Here is the sample from /etc/rc.log which confirms that:

Initialize loadable modules***********************
Output from "/sbin/rc1.d/S112kminit start":
----------------------------
/sbin/rc1.d/S112kminit[207]: Syntax error at line 79 : `)' is not expected.
"/sbin/rc1.d/S112kminit start" SKIPPED
Configure system crash dumps
Setting hostnamein/rc1.d/S080crashconf start":
Output from "/sbin/rc1.d/S320hostname start":
----------------------------tart" SKIPPED
/sbin/rc1.d/S320hostname[36]: Syntax error at line 79 : `)' is not expected.
Start multicast routing daemon
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S490mrouted start":
----------------------------
/sbin/rc2.d/S490mrouted[38]: Syntax error at line 79 : `)' is not expected.

Start Internet services daemon
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S500inetd start":
----------------------------
/sbin/rc2.d/S500inetd[37]: Syntax error at line 79 : `)' is not expected.

Start dynamic routing daemon
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S510gated start":
----------------------------
/sbin/rc2.d/S510gated[37]: Syntax error at line 79 : `)' is not expected.


(HP/UX ver 11.00)

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

Hi,

Try to execute :

$ sh -x /etc/rc.config

which sources all configuration files (no execution !) and see where and why it stops.

Regards.

[John Palmer]

What's to disagree about?

Line 207 of kminit reads:
. $ETC/rc.config
Line 36 of hostname reads:
. /etc/rc.config

So every error is caused by running the script /etc/rc.config.

You have a script in /etc/rc.config.d which has a syntax error at line 79. The fact that it has at least 79 lines should make it easy to isolate, most have less lines than that.

My guess would be netconf.

Regards,
John

[Marcin Piwko]

Thank you, all your suggestions were right, the faulty script was /rc.config.d/lp

Surprisingly, it has been altered year ago and nobody noticed the trouble ?!