[gentoo-user] VMware and the order of init scripts

[gentoo-user] VMware and the order of init scripts

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I keep getting complaints that vmware and cups form a dependency cycle,
although I haven't seen it be a problem in practice.

However, I just rebooted my system (a very rare event), and found that there's
a real problem with vmware and apache2.  Apache2 comes first, but it's set
up knowing about the pseudo-networks that vmware establishes, and it's
starting before the networks are alive.  This makes it give up and die.

Summary:
  -- is there actually a problem between cups and vmware, and if that's
        "maybe", how can I tell for sure.
  -- how do I adjust the order of scripts so that apache starts after vmware?

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and the order of init scripts

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:57:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I keep getting complaints that vmware and cups form a dependency cycle,
> although I haven't seen it be a problem in practice.

I've been seeing this message for ages and haven't had a problem with it.

> However, I just rebooted my system (a very rare event), and found that
> there's a real problem with vmware and apache2.  Apache2 comes first,
> but it's set up knowing about the pseudo-networks that vmware
> establishes, and it's starting before the networks are alive.  This
> makes it give up and die.

Add "use vmware" to the depend section of /etc/init.d/apache. See the dependencies section of "/etc/init.d/apache2 help for more detail.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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