On Wed, 23 May 2018 16:37:18 -1000 Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Hi knowledgeable colleagues! > > I recently upgraded to ascii, due to some itch I can't > quite remember now ;-) > > Everything was fine, till I rebooted. > > I got some errors during boot: > > INIT: cannot execute "/usr/sbin/runsvdir-start" > (this line repeated) IIRC runsvdir is from daemontools. Are you supervising with daemontools? > > INIT: Id "SV" respawning too fast, disabled for 5 minutes In the daemontools directory for the desktop manager (xdm or gdm or whatever), put a sleep 1 after the exec xdm or whatever. No more "too fast". Better yet, disable the desktop manager directory with a down file or whatever (long time since daemontools). Then run X with startx, and troubleshoot from that level before restoring the "boot directly to X" thing. > > Also, no such file, /usr/sbin/runsvdir-start: > > $ ls /usr/sbin/run* > > /usr/sbin/runq > /usr/sbin/runsvchdir > > Later, when I tried 'startx', the Xserver failed to start: Others have commented on the preceding, mostly centering on executability by normal user. SteveT Steve Litt June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
