Description of problem: It looks like /etc/event.d/rcS doesn't reliably ignore comments in /etc/inittab. In particular, if I understand correctly, /etc/event.d/rcS is looking for lines of the form *:*:initdefault:*, where the first two *'s represent arbitrary strings (except that they must not contain a :) and the third * represents an arbitrary string. As a result if /etc/inittab contains # id:3:initdefault: id:5:initdefault: will be interpreted by /etc/event.d/rcS as two valid lines -- it does not ignore the comment. Here, watch: $ /bin/awk -F ':' '$3 == "initdefault" { print $2 }' << EOF heredoc> # id:3:initdefault: heredoc> id:5:initdefault: heredoc> EOF 3 5 This is a gotcha that got me when I edited my /etc/inittab by commenting out the line that was previously present and adding a new (non-comment) line; the old commented-out line continued to take effect. See here for more explanation: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447216#c6 I'm opening a new bug report so that this bug isn't missed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.76.4-1.x86_64
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 447216 ***