diff --git a/src/initscripts/system/functions b/src/initscripts/system/functions
index 44ce999d3..3f01be9e0 100644
--- a/src/initscripts/system/functions
+++ b/src/initscripts/system/functions
@@ -900,6 +900,12 @@ readhash() {
 
 	local line
 	while read -r line; do
+
+		# Skip Blank Lines
+		if [[ ${line} =~ ^[[:space:]]*$ ]]; then
+			continue
+		fi
+
 		local key="${line%=*}"
 		local val="${line#*=}"
 
diff --git a/tests/src/initscripts/system/functions/data/1_output_stderr b/tests/src/initscripts/system/functions/data/1_output_stderr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/tests/src/initscripts/system/functions/data/1_output_stdout b/tests/src/initscripts/system/functions/data/1_output_stdout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/tests/src/initscripts/system/functions/test.sh b/tests/src/initscripts/system/functions/test.sh
index dbb2d8a62..751be6884 100755
--- a/tests/src/initscripts/system/functions/test.sh
+++ b/tests/src/initscripts/system/functions/test.sh
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@ readhash "CONFIG" "${SCRIPT_PATH}/data/1"
 # test if we read the correct data
 test_value_in_array "CONFIG" "RED_DHCP_HOSTNAME" "ipfire"
 test_value_in_array "CONFIG" "BLUE_MACADDR" "bc:30:7d:58:6b:e3"
+
+test_that_output_is "${SCRIPT_PATH}/data/1_output_stdout" "1" readhash "CONFIG" "${SCRIPT_PATH}/data/1"
+test_that_output_is "${SCRIPT_PATH}/data/1_output_stderr" "2" readhash "CONFIG" "${SCRIPT_PATH}/data/1"