* [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit
@ 2010-12-22 17:09 Peter Humphrey
2010-12-22 17:28 ` Mark Knecht
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From: Peter Humphrey @ 2010-12-22 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hello list,
Today my workstation has refused to start consolekit, giving this error:
* Starting ConsoleKit daemon ...
* start-stop-daemon: did not create a valid pid in `/var/run/ConsoleKit/pid' [ !! ]
* ERROR: consolekit failed to start
Then of course I can't log in via kdm; but X still detects my keystokes and allows
me to switch to a VT. If I boot to a console instead and then startx I've no further
problems.
The system started up the first time today just fine, but all attempts to restart
since then have failed. Here are the things I've tried:
1. Downgraded consolekit from 0.4.3 to 0.4.2-r4, even though the upgrade
was done on 8 Dec.
2. Removed the automounting of my Atom chroot from the default run level; I'd
been playing with it and thought it just possible that it had started interfering
somehow.
3. Run fsck -f on all partitions, having booted my rescue system from a
different kernel: no problems found.
4. Booted the previous kernel, gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r11, which had been
running until late October, instead of the usual 2.6.36-r5.
5. Booted ck-sources 2.6.36-r3.
6. Checked permissions on /var/run and /var/run/ConsoleKit; nothing suspicious
there, and I can touch the pid file myself ok.
7. Checked bugzilla for consolekit faults.
The only thing I've emerged today is nfs-utils.
I can't think of anything else I've changed. On the other hand, the last couple of
days I have been working on setting up an nfs and chroot method of maintaining
my Atom server box, as described by Neil B. in another thread, in the course of
which I may have done something stupid - and my memory is getting
embarrassingly fallible these days.
Can anyone see anything else I could check?
--
Rgds
Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit
2010-12-22 17:09 [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit Peter Humphrey
@ 2010-12-22 17:28 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-22 17:39 ` Peter Humphrey
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Mark Knecht @ 2010-12-22 17:28 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey
<peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> Can anyone see anything else I could check?
>
> --
> Rgds
> Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
>
>
Disk space? I had 4 VMs running versions of Windows all go down this
morning because one partition filled up. My bad...
- Mark
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit
2010-12-22 17:28 ` Mark Knecht
@ 2010-12-22 17:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-12-23 1:41 ` Mark Knecht
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Peter Humphrey @ 2010-12-22 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:28:09 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey
> <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> > Can anyone see anything else I could check?
> >
> > --
> > Rgds
> > Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
>
> Disk space?
Seems not. I copied a 150M ISO into /var with no problem. This is a 20GB
ext4 partition with default mkfs options, 58% full. Good idea though -
thanks.
--
Rgds
Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit
2010-12-22 17:39 ` Peter Humphrey
@ 2010-12-23 1:41 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-23 10:32 ` Helmut Jarausch
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Mark Knecht @ 2010-12-23 1:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Peter Humphrey
<peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:28:09 Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey
>> <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> > Can anyone see anything else I could check?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rgds
>> > Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
>>
>> Disk space?
>
> Seems not. I copied a 150M ISO into /var with no problem. This is a 20GB
> ext4 partition with default mkfs options, 58% full. Good idea though -
> thanks.
Yeah, that would be too easy.
OK, so I don't know much about what consolekit even does. It's on this
system and was touched (I guess) when the system booted, but it's not
running:
- Mark
k2 ~ # ls -la /var/run/ConsoleKit/pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Dec 22 16:31 /var/run/ConsoleKit/pid
k2 ~ # /etc/init.d/consolekit status
* status: stopped
k2 ~ # rc-update show --verbose
alsasound | default
apcupsd | default
bootmisc | boot
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
consolefont | boot
consolekit |
crypto-loop |
dbus | default
device-mapper |
dmeventd |
git-daemon |
gpm |
hdparm |
hostname | boot
keymaps | boot
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
lvm |
lvm-monitoring |
mdadm | default
mdraid |
modules | boot
mysql |
mysqlmanager |
net.eth0 | default
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
nscd |
ntp-client | default
ntpd | default
numlock |
pciparm |
pwcheck |
pydoc-2.6 |
pydoc-3.1 |
rmnologin | boot
rsyncd |
saslauthd |
slpd |
smartd |
sshd | default
svnserve |
syslog-ng | default
udev |
udev-dev-tarball |
udev-mount |
udev-postmount | default
urandom | boot
vixie-cron | default
xdm | default
xdm-setup |
k2 ~ #
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2010-12-23 1:41 ` Mark Knecht
@ 2010-12-23 10:32 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-12-23 10:51 ` Daniel Pielmeier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Helmut Jarausch @ 2010-12-23 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 12/23/10 02:41:44, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Peter Humphrey
> <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:28:09 Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey
> >> <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> >> <SNIP>
> >>
> >> > Can anyone see anything else I could check?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Rgds
> >> > Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
> >>
> >> Disk space?
> >
> > Seems not. I copied a 150M ISO into /var with no problem. This is a
> 20GB
> > ext4 partition with default mkfs options, 58% full. Good idea
> though
> -
> > thanks.
>
> Yeah, that would be too easy.
>
> OK, so I don't know much about what consolekit even does. It's on
> this
> system and was touched (I guess) when the system booted, but it's not
> running:
>
> - Mark
>
>
> k2 ~ # ls -la /var/run/ConsoleKit/pid
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Dec 22 16:31 /var/run/ConsoleKit/pid
>
> k2 ~ # /etc/init.d/consolekit status
> * status: stopped
>
> k2 ~ # rc-update show --verbose
> alsasound | default
> apcupsd | default
> bootmisc | boot
> checkfs | boot
> checkroot | boot
> clock | boot
> consolefont | boot
> consolekit |
> crypto-loop |
> dbus | default
> device-mapper |
> dmeventd |
> git-daemon |
> gpm |
> hdparm |
> hostname | boot
> keymaps | boot
> local | default nonetwork
> localmount | boot
> lvm |
> lvm-monitoring |
> mdadm | default
> mdraid |
> modules | boot
> mysql |
> mysqlmanager |
> net.eth0 | default
> net.lo | boot
> netmount | default
> nscd |
> ntp-client | default
> ntpd | default
> numlock |
> pciparm |
> pwcheck |
> pydoc-2.6 |
> pydoc-3.1 |
> rmnologin | boot
> rsyncd |
> saslauthd |
> slpd |
> smartd |
> sshd | default
> svnserve |
> syslog-ng | default
> udev |
> udev-dev-tarball |
> udev-mount |
> udev-postmount | default
> urandom | boot
> vixie-cron | default
> xdm | default
> xdm-setup |
> k2 ~ #
>
>
I'm having the same problem (as do others).
ps auxw | grep -i console
shows, that console-kit-daemon is actually running.
And killall console-kit-daemon, /etc/init.d/consolekit start
fixes the problems.
It looks as if something has started consolekit earlier but not by
using /etc/init.d/consolekit .
Unfortunately, I don't know how to debug which is starting consolekit.
Furthermore, I'd like to know where the source of the start-stop-daemon
is.
Helmut.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit
2010-12-23 10:32 ` Helmut Jarausch
@ 2010-12-23 10:51 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2010-12-23 11:10 ` [gentoo-user] SOLVED: " Peter Humphrey
2010-12-23 11:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Helmut Jarausch
0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Pielmeier @ 2010-12-23 10:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
I guess all of you having this problem use baseayout-2/openrc with
parallel service start. Try if rc_parallel="NO" in /etc/rc.conf fixes
the problem. I had a similar problem with sshd [1] which disappeared
after disabling parallel start.
[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292843
--
Daniel Pielmeier
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* [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit
2010-12-23 10:51 ` Daniel Pielmeier
@ 2010-12-23 11:10 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-12-23 11:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Helmut Jarausch
1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Peter Humphrey @ 2010-12-23 11:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thursday 23 December 2010 10:51:32 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> I guess all of you having this problem use baseayout-2/openrc with
> parallel service start. Try if rc_parallel="NO" in /etc/rc.conf fixes
> the problem. I had a similar problem with sshd [1] which disappeared
> after disabling parallel start.
Curiouser and curiouser.
I have rc_parallel="NO" (it's never been anything else) and I am on
openrc, but after rc-update del consolekit default and a reboot I can
log in again via kdm.
As with Helmut, ps shows consolekit running after login; it must have
been started by another service, but before /etc/init.d/consolekit would
have been run.
The original error message was precisely correct - it said the pid file
"was not created" (by /etc/init.d/consolekit). It misled me, though,
because what it meant is that the file had already been created.
The answer is apparently that consolekit should not be added to the
default run level.
Thanks to those who helped.
--
Rgds
Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious failure of ConsoleKit
2010-12-23 10:51 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2010-12-23 11:10 ` [gentoo-user] SOLVED: " Peter Humphrey
@ 2010-12-23 11:14 ` Helmut Jarausch
1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Helmut Jarausch @ 2010-12-23 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 12/23/10 11:51:32, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> I guess all of you having this problem use baseayout-2/openrc with
> parallel service start. Try if rc_parallel="NO" in /etc/rc.conf fixes
> the problem. I had a similar problem with sshd [1] which disappeared
> after disabling parallel start.
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292843
>
Unfortunately no!
I do have rc_parallel="NO" in my /etc/rc.conf
and it happens anyway.
Helmut.
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