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Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

One Daemon fails on startup, but I don't know which one

Hi!

During startup I see the message, that one of the daemons fails on startup, but my eyes are too slow to see which one it is

I don't have any troubles and everything works fine but I want to know what's going wrong on startup. I know there are log files in /var/log but I can't find the information I looking for.

These daemons I have in my rc.conf:

syslog-ng network netfs crond cups hal !fam alsa acpid slim mpd

So, not that much, but I don't get it (I don't know about the fam-daemon, I think I don't need it, do I?)

Thanks

Barghest

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: One Daemon fails on startup, but I don't know which one

In /etc/issue, delete the first line of control chars - then the screen won't clear, so you should be able to see the error message.

Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: One Daemon fails on startup, but I don't know which one

Thanks for your suggestion, but that didn't work.

But I just used sudo reboot after login and had a chance to see that it is the acpid daemon that fails.

I'm a bit confused, because it works fine (I can shutdown by pressing the power button) and in /var/log/acpid.log I can't find an error message.

So, is it a good idea to start it in the background?

Last edited by Barghest (2008-02-08 10:58:41)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: One Daemon fails on startup, but I don't know which one

Still need to reboot, after changing /etc/issue.

Look at /etc/rc.d/acpid - try running "acpid" as root, which is what that script does.

Barghest

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From: Hanau/Germany

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 563

Re: One Daemon fails on startup, but I don't know which one

This is/was the content of the /etc/issue an I rebooted after changing it.

^[H^[2J
Arch Linux (Core Dump)  \r  (\n) (\l)

sudo /etc/rc.d/acpid restart works with no error message and I have the funktionality of it after startup even when the daemon fails to start.