On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:17 AM, YoYo Siska <y...@gl.ksp.sk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:31:08PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> > Hey list,
> >
> > A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the
> > ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I can run rc-update add
> > xdm default, for example, and the xdm symlink will appear in
> > /etc/runlevels/default, and that symlink will indeed point to
> > /etc/init.d/xdm, but xdm will not start. Further to that, there's no
> > evidence to indicate that RC is even trying to start it. No errors, no
> > logs, no nothing. Same goes for virtualbox-guest-additions and sysklogd.
> > I tried logging rc and got absolutely nowhere. There's nothing overt in
> > dmesg either.
> >
> > The really fun part is these scripts function perfectly if I run them
> after
> > boot.
> >
> > Since there's no evidence of this problem in any logs or during the
> startup
> > process, I assume there is no problem and I am doing it wrong.
>
> Is it possible that you are booting into a different runlevel that
> default ? (there's a softlevel=... kernel cmdline parameter)
>
> What happens if (after boot) you just run
>
> rc
>
> (should start all service in the current runlevel, that are not
> started yet) or
>
> rc default
>
> (should swithc to 'default' runlevel and start all services) ?
>
> Could you post the output of rc-status -a ?
> And maybe also grep rc /etc/inittab ?
>
> For xdm there is one additional thing to check: xdm can be disabled
> through a 'nox' kernel cmdline option or an /etc/.noxdm file...
> But in that case the initscript itself should start and just print a
> message, that it is not starting the DM.
>
> yoyo
>
>
Hey, thanks for the reply.
Running rc or rc default returns immediately. I am sure I am starting into
the default runlevel because ntp-client runs on default and it starts no
problem.
Output from grep rc /etc/inittab:
si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit
rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot
l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
l1:1:wait:/sbin/rc single
l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default
l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot
su0:S:wait:/sbin/rc single
Output from rc-status -a:
Runlevel: default
net.eth1 [
started ]
dbus [
started ]
net.eth0 [
started ]
netmount [
started ]
ntp-client [
started ]
sshd [
started ]
udev-postmount [
started ]
local [
started ]
Runlevel: sysinit
dmesg [
started ]
udev [
started ]
devfs [
started ]
Runlevel: boot
hwclock [
started ]
modules [
started ]
fsck [
started ]
root [
started ]
mtab [
started ]
localmount [
started ]
sysctl [
started ]
bootmisc [
started ]
urandom [
started ]
net.lo [
started ]
termencoding [
started ]
swap [
started ]
keymaps [
started ]
hostname [
started ]
procfs [
started ]
Runlevel: shutdown
killprocs [
stopped ]
savecache [
stopped ]
mount-ro [
stopped ]
Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged
Dynamic Runlevel: needed
sysfs [
started ]
Dynamic Runlevel: manual
Output from rc-update show:
bootmisc | boot
dbus | default
devfs | sysinit
dmesg | sysinit
fsck | boot
hostname | boot
hwclock | boot
keymaps | boot
killprocs | shutdown
local | default
localmount | boot
modules | boot
mount-ro | shutdown
mtab | boot
net.eth0 | default
net.eth1 | default
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
ntp-client | default
procfs | boot
root | boot
savecache | shutdown
sshd | default
swap | boot
sysctl | boot
sysklogd | default
termencoding | boot
udev | sysinit
udev-postmount | default
urandom | boot
virtualbox-guest-additions | default
xdm | default
xdm-setup | default
