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nannolo

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Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 8

Twice Daemons

I ve got a big problem
i have a twice of every daemon that i have...

So i have a double Xorg , double dbus , double log

Can anyone help me?

bradym

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-04-13

Posts: 9

Re: Twice Daemons

The first place I'd look is to see if they're listed twice in the /etc/rc.conf file under the daemons section at the bottom

nannolo

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: Twice Daemons

No i wrote a deamon just once

no double copies of the deamons

tesjo

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 164

Re: Twice Daemons

How do you verify daemon is running double, are you sure it is not the monitoring app. dbus should fail if it is tried start after it is already running.

nannolo

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: Twice Daemons

dbus is not double but i can see at the startup that dbus is used called twice and the second time it fails

after that i got to xorg , is it normal?
i ve got another computer with arch and it hasn't adouble xorg process

bradym

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Registered: 2008-04-13

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Re: Twice Daemons

Does xorg start automatically start when you boot the computer, or do you type startx at a command prompt to start it?  If you boot to a shell prompt first, are any of the daemons running before you type startx?

nannolo

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: Twice Daemons

i'll do it automatically with gdm daemon

bradym

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Registered: 2008-04-13

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Re: Twice Daemons

As far as I know the 3 main places that start programs automatically are /etc/rc.conf (when the system boots) ~/.bashrc (when you login) and .xinitrc (when xorg starts).  Those are the places I'd look.  I've only been using Arch for a few months, so there are probably other places as well, but check those.

nannolo

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: Twice Daemons

nope ,
espacially i mean the xorg server
because i have two of them on this pc
and i jave just one process about the xorg server on another pc

tesjo

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 164

Re: Twice Daemons

The daemons called in rc.conf reside in /etc/rc.d , you could see if there not somehow multiple copies there. Also you could post your /etc/rc.conf

nannolo

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Registered: 2008-05-13

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Re: Twice Daemons

no multiple daemons

this the last part of the file about daemon

....
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng alsa netfs crond hal fam gdm)

bradym

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-04-13

Posts: 9

Re: Twice Daemons

I realize that xorg should not start before gnome is started, but as a test I'd remove gdm from the daemons list and try rebooting to the terminal to see if you get any error messages that way.  If no error messages, then try startx.  If that works, then maybe its something to do with the way gdm starts.  Like I said I'm new to this, so at this point I'd just be experimenting, trying to get more info for someone else who may be able to help.

tesjo

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 164

Re: Twice Daemons

I agree try without gdm and see, also I assume you have /etc/inittab to default to run level 3.

The boot script /etc/rc.multi is what actually calls the daemons from rc.conf. This is normally not edited but you could see if there is a problem there.

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: Twice Daemons

nope ,
espacially i mean the xorg server
because i have two of them on this pc
and i jave just one process about the xorg server on another pc

The closed ati driver causes X to fork, it's a known problem

nannolo

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Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 8

Re: Twice Daemons

ah OK thanks!

perfetto , non sapevo di questo bug, grazie