[gentoo-user] problem with open-rc - daemon is running but rc-service says stopped

[Jack]

"rc-service elogind status" says it is stopped, but "ps auxf | grep  
elogind" shows elogind-daemon is running.  /run/elogind.pid has the  
correct pid for the daemon.  Based on we searches for similar issues, I  
discovered that that /run/openrc/started/elogind did not exist.  "ln -s  
/etc/init.d/elogind /run/openrc/started/" made rc-service recognize  
that the process was actually started.

I can't find anything in /var/log or dmesg about elogind starting.  It  
is not specified in any runlevel, so I assume it is being started  
automatically as needed by something else, although the only other file  
in /etc/init.d that needs it is fwupd, which is not currently running  
(and not automatically started).

I suppose if I put elogind in the default runlevel, then open-rc will  
hopefully start it before it would otherwise get launched, but I'm  
curious how I could track down what is currently causing it to be  
started.

Jack