Bug #2402
closed
rc.stop_packages synxtax error when executed
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Description
PHP appears to be choking on the new changed syntax in /etc/rc.stop_packages. It's giving a syntax error when executed, even though php -l says the code contains no syntax errors.
The error is:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in - on line 42
However there is no real error there. If you put any code in there, an echo, a global statement, etc, it chokes on it, even if you cut out any other PHP code ahead of it. If you revert the changes made to rc.stop_packages in 0124456b0c4d602adea538cee35fc67c977e9f2e the behavior from #1564 comes back where it will exec fine from the shell but will not reboot from the GUI.
I ran out of time to debug it today -- if someone else has any ideas, have at it. Otherwise I'll poke at it next week.
Updated by Jim Pingle almost 12 years ago
Looks like that syntax:
/usr/local/bin/php -q <<ENDPHP ... ENDPHP
Is being interpreted by the shell and all of the $vars are being stripped among other changes. This didn't even work on 2.0.x either, so it's not a recent problem. We'll have to go back to the other syntax (calling with php -f) since to make this work we'd have to shell escape the entire source of the script, which would be ugly and hard to maintain.
Which means that the behavior from #1564 will return unless we can figure that out. Might be better to close this out and reopen #1564.
Updated by Jim Pingle almost 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Feedback
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset 60dd7649d02e4a82f9d57953359bf312038f174a.
Updated by Jim Pingle almost 12 years ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
This has been working fine for me since my last fix. No errors, and it runs as expected during shutdown.