Thanks for the responses, Steve. Answering inline. On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:56:59PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2018 16:37:18 -1000 > Joel Roth <[email protected]> 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? As I wrote elsewhere, for runit (which I had installed at the time) /usr/sbin/runsvdir-start is usually symlinked to /etc/runit/2 > > > > 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. The original post mentions only startx; I don't use a display manager (is that the correct term?) such as xdm.
(I used to think that having to type `startx` on the command line would help people to discover using the shell. Now seems naive, although I did teach my dad to type startx.) > > 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. Fsmithred pointed out that installing libpam-elogin makes it possible run X as an unprivileged user, which seems like a good idea. cheers, -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
