Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc fails

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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walt wrote:
> On 10/10/2010 03:17 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
>> I have A problem on my gentoo server (but not my gentoo laptop, which is
>> bizzare as they together have the same release of system basic 
>> packages !).
>>
>> At launching default runlevel, several services appear to be not 
>> launched
>> whereas they are ! This concerns proftpd, mysql and console-kit (and all
>> services dependant of course).
>>
>> For exemple, when launching proftpd, openrc says :
>>
>> * Starting ProFTPD ...
>>   * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/proftpd is already running
>>   [ !! ]
>>   * ERROR: proftpd failed to start
>>
>> mysql :
>>   * "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid" is still present and the process is 
>> running.
>>   * Please stop it "kill 5478" maybe ?
>>   [ !! ]
>>   * ERROR: mysql failed to start
>>
>> I have set :
>> rc_parallel="NO"
>> rc_depend_strict="YES"
>>
>> Anyone have an idea where to start to solve the problem ?
>
> When you stop the machine do you see any messages about services that 
> fail
> to stop?  Any reason to suspect that those *.pid files don't get deleted?
>
> You could try booting into single-user mode to see if those *.pid files
> really are still there from the previous session.
>
> Do the two machines run the same version of baselayout?
>

Does the zap option exist in openrc?  That may get rid of the pid file too.

Just a thought.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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