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stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

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[SOLVED] Running mercurial server (hg serve) at boot

Hi,

I'm trying to run hg serve in rc.local but for some reason the server doesn't seem to start.

Besides comments, my rc.local contains this:

echo conservative >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo 55 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/conservative/down_threshold

hg serve --daemon --port 5000 --prefix /mnt/data/Dev/Projets/Robot/

After booting, hg is not running. But If I copy-paste the hg serve line into a terminal, that works.

I can't find any related error message in dmesg or /var/log/messages.log, but I'm not sure if they are the good places to look.

/mnt/data is an NTFS partition that is declared in fstab and mounted at boot. This is supposed to happen before rc.local is run...

Also I tried running the server as root and that works, so that's not the problem (even though I might want to run it as another user).

Any idea why hg doesn't start when run in rc.local?

Last edited by stqn (2010-04-29 22:15:14)

Surgat_

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Re: [SOLVED] Running mercurial server (hg serve) at boot

You can try to debug it by appending ">/some/file" and/or "2>/some/file2", and its stdout and stderr outputs will be stored there.

stqn

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Re: [SOLVED] Running mercurial server (hg serve) at boot

Thanks, I hadn't thought about that. Here is the error message I got:

"abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!"

I tried a lot of things, googled and rebooted way too many times before I understood my error: "hg serve" has to be run from within the repository directory!

This works:

cd /mnt/data/Dev/Projets/Robot/ && hg serve --daemon --port 5000 --prefix /mnt/data/Dev/Projets/Robot/

And I lost so much time looking for mount and permissions problems... :-\
Thanks for your help!