Stroller wrote:
On 7 Mar 2008, at 19:11, Matthias Bethke wrote:
on Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:51:04PM +0000, you wrote:
I'm not sure what this does, either. Someone may come along in a
moment with better advice, but as a first step I'd `equery b
/etc/initi.d/device-mapper`. If it says that device-mapper doesn't
belong to any of your current packages then I think you can safely
(remove it from the default runlevel and subsequently) delete it,
otherwise I'd reemerge the package to which it belongs.
Baselayout has a bunch of init scripts and utilities that all the other
init scripts need, plus /etc/conf.d stuff ("equery f baselayout" can
tell you what exactly). You certainly don't want to unmerge that if you
ever plan to reboot your system.
I wouldn't recommend unmerging it if it were needed, but `equery b
/etc/initi.d/device-mapper` should show whether the file belongs to
any package or not. If it doesn't belong to any package then it
_should_ be safe to delete (but see my commend about removing it from
the default runlevel first), and it should be safe to reemerge
baselayout, should it belong to that package (or otherwise).
Stroller.
I checked on my system, the device-mapper service is not running here
and I don't recall every having it running. So far, everything works
here.
I would stop the service, remove it from any of the run levels and
reboot and see what happens. I guess in theory you could just go to
single user mode but I would reboot if it were me. If everything goes
well then you may be able to remove it and cause no harm.
According to what I am reading, it is used for LVM. Do you use that? I
played with it a little bit once so I guess that is how I got it on mine
here. That said, it appears something else depends on it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery depends device-mapper
[ Searching for packages depending on device-mapper... ]
sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks-1.0.4-r3 (>=sys-fs/device-mapper-1.00.07-r1)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
I would certainly test some things before removing this. Just to be safe.
Dale
:-) :-)
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