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On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:10:07PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:53:18 -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> > > Running rc or rc default returns immediately. I am sure I am starting |
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> > > into the default runlevel because ntp-client runs on default and it |
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> > > starts no problem. |
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> > Have you enabled logging in rc.conf? What does /var/log/rc.log show? |
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> I have indeed. The logs show that everything but xdm and |
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> virtualbox-guest-additions start normally. The logs do not show any |
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> attempt to start either of those. It seems this system is full of lies. |
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> Did you check the file permissions on those scripts? |
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> I have. Permissions in the /etc/init.d folder are consistent across the |
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> board. |
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> If anything else, you can try running 'strace -e trace=file' on |
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> > rc-status and rc-update show and might notice something there that would |
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> > explain while those two tools come up with different sets of scripts... |
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> I've attached the strace results from rc-status, rc-update show and rc |
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> itself. If you guys can make any sense of them, I'd be grateful. |
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Seems that rc-status sees the xdm initscript... but why doesn't it |
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show it then... no idea... |
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My advice would be to submit a bug, the inconsistent output from |
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rc-status vs rc-update is suspicious enough... |
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You might also try to re-emerge the packages that installs |
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/etc/init.d/xdm to see if that doesn't help... (should be |
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x11-base/xorg-server) |
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yoyo |
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