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I have fam listed in the daemons array of rc.conf and on boot it calls portmap, and both fam and portmap load fine. However, I noticed my desktop was not refreshing loadd fam again with "/etc/rc.d/fam start" and it successfully loaded. Still the desktop did not refresh itself so to test I did "/etc/rc.d/fam stop" which failed indicating that fam crashes immediately after it loads. Also, when I shutdown the computer, the "Stopping File Alteration Monitor" message outputs a failure as well.
I'm using arch x86_64, latest kernel and everything, any suggestions?
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Anything in /var/log/errors.log?
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yes, famd[5568]: can't register with portmapper. i know that fam calls portmap to start though and at boot it successfully launches and successfully stops at halt...
here is my daemons from rc.conf: DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network !netfs crond hal fam wicd cpufreqd alsa laptop-mode)
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It might seem a strange suggestion, but try moving fam to the end of the daemon list. I was having trouble with loading and that seemed to fix it....
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Have you tried gamin? I was having similar issues with desktop updates when I was suing fam. In addition when opening thunar for the first time it could take up to 5 minutes before a window came up. I built gamin with the pkgbuild in aur and everything is working fine for me now. The pkgbuild is a little out of date but you can build the newest version of gamin just by changing the pkgver in the pkgbuild.
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if you have networkmanager in your rc.conf DAEMONS, make sure to put fam _after_ networkmanager. fam before networkmanager causes fam to start, but not work. several people had this problem already.
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putting fam last definitely helped, it still crashes at initial boot but after a "/etc/rc.d/fam start" it loads fine although it still complains about not registering with portmapper. is gamin any different than fam?
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is gamin any different than fam?
gamin does only monitor local filesystems, whereas fam takes care of both local and networked fs
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i've build gamin with aurbuild but how do i start it? it isn't a daemon...
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Gamin isn't a deamon, so you don't need to put anything in rc.conf. Just having it installed should be enough, but you'll probably need to at least restart X before XFCE will pick up that its there.
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