> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:11:44AM -0700, Mike wrote: >> I'm baffled.... I can start this by running >> "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start" after the computer starts but when >> its starting up it just says its starting but never does. >> >> How on earth would I trouble shoot something like this if it isn't >> going to tell me why it isn't starting it? And can somebody remind >> me why source functions and the normal every day linux way of doing >> this wasn't good enough for debian? > > Source functions? Huh?
normally you just have a set of source functions library like /etc/init.d/functions or some other path that you use for your init scripts. Debian has decided to daomonize it with this start-stop-daemon thing they made up. I guess I could create my own functions file and go through all of that but I figured when in rome... > >> Thanks, this is what I'm trying to get to start right after MySQL >> starts... which it tries to do and looks like it does, but doesn't. >> Any ideas? I'm on sarge if that matters. > > If it is running, but mysteriously failing only during bootup, it sounds > like an ordering problem or maybe even a race condition -- like maybe > mysql startup script exits before mysql opens its port, myth fails > because mysql is not yet available. It could also be an environment > problem, which would be a bug in the script. > > You could try putting a sulogin immediately before the mythbackend > script in your runlevel then running mythbackend manually. If it works > you've ruled out ordering and should check for environment problems by > stopping mythbackend, putting it last in the runlevel and proceeding to > boot; if that works you've ruled out environment and should investigate > the race condition. > > A more direct approach may be to get mythbackend to tell you why it's > failing. > Thanks for replying, I ended up getting mythbackend to tell me why its failing. It was due to start-stop-daemon using '/' rather than the users home that I thought it would change to with the chuid flag. Resulting in it trying to read things like /.somedir/somefile rather than /home/user/.somedir/somefile. No idea how to fix that without changing the mythtv, start-stop-daemon or just copying that file down to the root filesystem. -Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
