Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc fails

Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> walt wrote:
> > On 10/10/2010 03:17 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> >> I have A problem on my gentoo server (but not my gentoo laptop, which is
> >> bizzare as they together have the same release of system basic
> >> packages !).
> >>
> >> At launching default runlevel, several services appear to be not
> >> launched
> >> whereas they are ! This concerns proftpd, mysql and console-kit (and all
> >> services dependant of course).
> >>
> >> For exemple, when launching proftpd, openrc says :
> >>
> >> * Starting ProFTPD ...
> >>   * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/proftpd is already running
> >>   [ !! ]
> >>   * ERROR: proftpd failed to start
> >>
> >> mysql :
> >>   * "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid" is still present and the process
> >> is running.
> >>   * Please stop it "kill 5478" maybe ?
> >>   [ !! ]
> >>   * ERROR: mysql failed to start
> >>
> >> I have set :
> >> rc_parallel="NO"
> >> rc_depend_strict="YES"
> >>
> >> Anyone have an idea where to start to solve the problem ?
> >
> > When you stop the machine do you see any messages about services
> > that fail
> > to stop?  Any reason to suspect that those *.pid files don't get deleted?
> >
> > You could try booting into single-user mode to see if those *.pid files
> > really are still there from the previous session.
> >
> > Do the two machines run the same version of baselayout?
> >
>
> Does the zap option exist in openrc?  That may get rid of the pid file too.
>
> Just a thought.
I wonder if he has something in two different runlevels because
start-stop says something is already running, not just that the pid file
is there.

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