On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| 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
|
That's all that's in your /root/ps-output file?
Odd.
| 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.
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| 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
Well, this is where you're switching to run-level 5. You didn't want
to do that. It's happening in "init".
I don't have such a service on my machine, do you have a file called
/etc/rc.d/init.d? Is this listed in your run-level 5 startup?
Does anybody else know if there's some other place where an "init"
would be started?
| 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)
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