Re: start-stop-daemon.... for the love of GOD! Why?
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:11:44AM -0700, Mike wrote:
> I'm baffled.... I can start this by running
> "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start" after the computer starts but when
> its starting up it just says its starting but never does.
>
> How on earth would I trouble shoot something like this if it isn't
> going to tell me why it isn't starting it? And can somebody remind
> me why source functions and the normal every day linux way of doing
> this wasn't good enough for debian?
Source functions? Huh?
> Thanks, this is what I'm trying to get to start right after MySQL
> starts... which it tries to do and looks like it does, but doesn't.
> Any ideas? I'm on sarge if that matters.
If it is running, but mysteriously failing only during bootup, it sounds
like an ordering problem or maybe even a race condition -- like maybe
mysql startup script exits before mysql opens its port, myth fails
because mysql is not yet available. It could also be an environment
problem, which would be a bug in the script.
You could try putting a sulogin immediately before the mythbackend
script in your runlevel then running mythbackend manually. If it works
you've ruled out ordering and should check for environment problems by
stopping mythbackend, putting it last in the runlevel and proceeding to
boot; if that works you've ruled out environment and should investigate
the race condition.
A more direct approach may be to get mythbackend to tell you why it's
failing.
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