Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-24 Thread Stroller
On 23/12/2010, at 4:18pm, David W Noon wrote: ... I had this problem about a year ago. I fixed it by having Consolekit started explicitly in the boot run-level: rc-update add consolekit boot I did a fresh install this week and I believe this the way Gentoo ships the stage3. I only had

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/23/10 02:41:44, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:28:09 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: SNIP Can anyone see

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I guess all of you having this problem use baseayout-2/openrc with parallel service start. Try if rc_parallel=NO in /etc/rc.conf fixes the problem. I had a similar problem with sshd [1] which disappeared after disabling parallel start. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292843 -- Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/23/10 11:51:32, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I guess all of you having this problem use baseayout-2/openrc with parallel service start. Try if rc_parallel=NO in /etc/rc.conf fixes the problem. I had a similar problem with sshd [1] which disappeared after disabling parallel start. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-23 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:20:02 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit: On 12/23/10 11:51:32, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I guess all of you having this problem use baseayout-2/openrc with parallel service start. Try if rc_parallel=NO in /etc/rc.conf

[gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Today my workstation has refused to start consolekit, giving this error: * Starting ConsoleKit daemon ... * start-stop-daemon: did not create a valid pid in `/var/run/ConsoleKit/pid' [ !! ] * ERROR: consolekit failed to start Then of course I can't log in via kdm; but X still

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: SNIP Can anyone see anything else I could check? -- Rgds Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. Disk space? I had 4 VMs running versions of Windows all go down this morning because one partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:28:09 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: SNIP Can anyone see anything else I could check? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. Disk space? Seems not. I copied a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:28:09 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: SNIP Can anyone see anything else I could check? -- Rgds Peter.