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