Brian T. Schellenberger said:
> A possible way to find out is to do a
>
> ps alwf > /root/ps-output
>
> when you go to run-level 5; eg, put this:
>
> :5:respawn:ps alwf > /root/ps-output
>
> in your /etc/inittab. Then we can at least see what's going on when
> this happens.
I added the second line to inittab:
#x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:ps alwf > /root/ps-output
I put the x at the beginning after the system complained about nothing being
there.
I'm probably still not doing this right somehow, because I'm not getting
anything informative.
This one line is all it says:
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
At boot time, there's the message that the line is respawning too fast and will
be paused for 5 minutes.
> Also, your /var/log/messages might show something about switching to
> run-level 5. Perhaps it will give a clue to who is doing it?
I'll the lines from one boot below my sig.
--
Lane
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Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Apr 9 12:38:52 localhost syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Apr 9 12:38:52 localhost syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Apr 9 12:38:52 localhost syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.2.14-15mdk
Apr 9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: Loaded 6230 symbols from
/boot/System.map-2.2.14-15mdk.
Apr 9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.14.
Apr 9 12:38:52 localhost kernel: Loaded 151 symbols from 10 modules.
Apr 9 12:38:53 localhost crond: crond startup succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Mounting proc filesystem succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost date: Sun Apr 9 12:38:26 EDT 2000
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Setting clock : Sun Apr 9 12:38:26 EDT
2000 succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Setting hostname localhost succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost fsck: /dev/hdb8: clean, 94544/261120 files,
422329/522104 blocks
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Checking root filesystem succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost isapnp: Board 1 has Identity 9a 0b 43 20 32 9e 00 8c
0e: CTL009e Serial No 188948530 [checksum 9a]
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost isapnp: CTL009e/188948530[0]{Audio }:
Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 --- Enabled OK
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost isapnp: CTL009e/188948530[1]{Game }:
Port 0x200; --- Enabled OK
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost isapnp: CTL009e/188948530[2]{WaveTable }:
Ports 0x620 0xA20 0xE20; --- Enabled OK
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Setting up ISA PNP devices succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write
mode succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:27 localhost rc.sysinit: Loading sound module succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:34 localhost rc.sysinit: Loading midi module succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:34 localhost rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:35 localhost rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:35 localhost rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for
local filesystems succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:35 localhost rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:36 localhost mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions
succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:40 localhost init: Switching to runlevel: 5
Apr 9 12:38:50 localhost kudzu: succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:51 localhost network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:53 localhost inet: inetd startup succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:53 localhost lpd: lpd startup succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:53 localhost loadkeys: Loading
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
Apr 9 12:38:53 localhost keytable: Loading keymap: us succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:53 localhost loadkeys: Loading
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/compose/compose.latin.gz
Apr 9 12:38:54 localhost keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin
succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:54 localhost keytable: succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:54 localhost keytable: Loading system font: succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:54 localhost PAM_pwdb[379]: (su) session opened for user xfs by
(uid=0)
Apr 9 12:38:54 localhost PAM_pwdb[379]: (su) session closed for user xfs
Apr 9 12:38:54 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Apr 9 12:38:55 localhost linuxconf-setup: Linuxconf final setup
Apr 9 12:38:55 localhost rc: Starting linuxconf-setup succeeded
Apr 9 12:39:08 localhost PAM_pwdb[400]: (login) session opened for user root
by LOGIN(uid=0)
