Re: missing consoles
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:13:38PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:58:59PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:16:33PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > I took a look at this, where the virtual consoles are created, and see
> now
> > > how both my problem were caused. Somehow one of the init.d scripts (I
> > > think it was kdm itself) didn't return, so init didn't finish reading
> > > through inittab, and so it never got to calling getty.
> >
> > Make sure /etc/init.d/kdm has "exit 0" on the last line. It should, but
> > if it doesn't, it could be a problem.
>
> It does have 'exit 0' on the last line. Actually, it doesn't seem to get
> past the 'start-stop-daemon' line. :( Here is a snippet:
>
> start)
> echo -n "Starting K display manager: "
> if getpid && stillrunning; then
> echo "already running."
> else
> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
> -- $ARG && echo "done."
> fi
> echo "this is only a test by David Roundy."
> ;;
>
> It prints the "Starting K display manager: ", but doesn't print done. I
> can produce this either at startup, or in console mode by running
> `/etc/init.d/kdm start`, which does start up kdm and it runs fine, but it
> doesn't print done and doesn't return. Then if I hit ^C in the console in
> which I typed the `/etc/init.d/kdm start`, it prints the 'done.' and the
> test message (and kdm dies).
>
> I am currently at a loss, and ready to take a break for the day. xdm seems
> to start and stop just fine (no surprise there, just wanted to make sure I
> wasn't going crazy).
Obviously kdm is not detaching as a background process. Perhaps it
doesn't fork? Anyway, you can try the --background argument to
start-stop-daemon and see if that helps. Note: you can't rely on the
exit status of start-stop-daemon to tell you anything useful with
"--background".
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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