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On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:31:08PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> Hey list, |
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> A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the |
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> ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I can run rc-update add |
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> xdm default, for example, and the xdm symlink will appear in |
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> /etc/runlevels/default, and that symlink will indeed point to |
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> /etc/init.d/xdm, but xdm will not start. Further to that, there's no |
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> evidence to indicate that RC is even trying to start it. No errors, no |
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> logs, no nothing. Same goes for virtualbox-guest-additions and sysklogd. |
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> I tried logging rc and got absolutely nowhere. There's nothing overt in |
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> dmesg either. |
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> The really fun part is these scripts function perfectly if I run them after |
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> boot. |
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> Since there's no evidence of this problem in any logs or during the startup |
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> process, I assume there is no problem and I am doing it wrong. |
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Is it possible that you are booting into a different runlevel that |
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default ? (there's a softlevel=... kernel cmdline parameter) |
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What happens if (after boot) you just run |
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rc |
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(should start all service in the current runlevel, that are not |
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started yet) or |
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rc default |
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(should swithc to 'default' runlevel and start all services) ? |
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Could you post the output of rc-status -a ? |
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And maybe also grep rc /etc/inittab ? |
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For xdm there is one additional thing to check: xdm can be disabled |
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through a 'nox' kernel cmdline option or an /etc/.noxdm file... |
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But in that case the initscript itself should start and just print a |
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message, that it is not starting the DM. |
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yoyo |
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