[SOLVED] FAM fails after starting successfully

Allan · 2007-06-23 12:15:22

I am have a strange issue with FAM. During startup it says it is launched successfully but by the time I get to my desktop it appears to have stopped (from the output when running /etc/rc.d/fam {start|stop|restart})

Here is my daemons line from /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng ipw3945d !network netfs crond dbus hal portmap fam cpufreq alsa dhcdbd networkmanager)

I tried moving fam to the end but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Allan (2007-06-24 08:27:22)

ataraxia · 2007-06-24 01:29:01

fam will crash if it can't register with portmap. I had this happen to me a while back when I screwed up my firewall rules and blocked loopback traffic.

Run 'rpcinfo -p'. If it produces output, this isn't your problem. If it hangs, then either portmap is broken (very unlikely) or you have some kind of firewall problem like this.

Allan · 2007-06-24 03:27:54

I don't think that is my problem. rcpinfo -p gives output. And portmap is definitely running before fam starts. I haven't touch any firewall rules.

ataraxia · 2007-06-24 05:50:24

If you start famd from a terminal window, you'll be able to see any errors it might produce.

Allan · 2007-06-24 07:58:43

I get no error messages when I start fam in the terminal after login.

I think this may be networkmanager related. According to the note I made while installing the system in the last few days, installing gnome-network-manager and start gnome services on startup in XFCE were the last things I did before this went wrong.

Anybody else running XFCE and gnome-network-manager that can comment?

baze · 2007-06-24 08:04:21

i had the same problem a month ago or so. it should work fine, if you start fam after networkmanager.

Allan · 2007-06-24 08:28:56

Finally figured it out. Just put portmap and fam after network manager. If portmap is before networkmanager then fam at the end does not work. You only need on in the daemons list anyway...

gour · 2007-08-09 06:30:08

Allan wrote:

Finally figured it out. Just put portmap and fam after network manager. If portmap is before networkmanager then fam at the end does not work. You only need on in the daemons list anyway...

Thank you for the tip

I was wondering why fam is dying on laptop (where I run networkmanager) and not on (almost same setup) the desktop machine

What do you think to put the info in some FAQ?

Sincerely,
Gour

Doehni · 2007-09-14 20:52:08

Sorry for reactivating this thread, but: I have the very same problem since I reinstalled Arch with a 2007.05 CD.
After bootup my fam daemon seems to work fine, but it fails to stop when rebooting it. After restarting fam everything works fine.
This is my daemons list:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng acpid dbus fam hal @network @netfs @crond cpufreq alsa kdm)

I tried several different positions for fam, no luck!

What elese could be the problem?? I just don't get it...

Doehni · 2007-09-20 13:36:48

OK, I've got the solution: The network daemon has to be started without @ and before fam

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[SOLVED] FAM fails after starting successfully

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