On Jun 19, 2017, at 11:42, Hoggins! <[email protected]> wrote:

> You know, as usual when upgrading, I used to stop the Rivendell service,
> and then make install, and then RDAdmin for a DB upgrade, etc.
> Now from what I just did, I'm pretty sure that ripcd (the 2.15.3 one)
> was still running the whole time, preventing everything to work.
> 
> And amongst all the daemons that I had manually shut down when trying to
> solve my problem (caed, all rdimport dropbox instances), I just forgot
> to force the ripcd instance to close.
> 
> My guess is that I had not triggered the whole rivendell service stop as
> root, but as the audio owner of that machine, and it did not kill ripcd.

As a rule of thumb, anytime you see ‘weirdness’ with the value of the current 
user on the title bar (wrong user, or no user name at all), ripcd(8) is the 
first thing to be checking.  That is the component that (among other things) 
keeps track of the current ‘security context’ of the system, including the 
currently logged in user.

Cheers!


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