On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:32:11 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually I had this problem with a gentoo install a little while ago, > the login process for some reason wasn't triggering the usual scripts > for a login shell, so e17 was starting without any of the profile > scripts triggering (/etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile). Consequently all > of gentoo's environment configurations in /etc/env.d weren't loading > up, the path being just one of the problems. > > Unfortunately I can't remember for the life of me how I fixed it > without resorting to hacks in the bashrc or session files. If I > remember I'll let you know.
Hacks to session and startup scripts is exactly how I fixed entranced, just sprinkled calls to /etc/profile librally. Entranced seems a little brittle and fussy. My symptoms are that the keyboard gets mostly locked out. I am unable to type user name and password which makes entranced exceedingly useless. If I use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to a text virtual terminal, so that I can log in as root and kill entranced, the screen goes black for a few seconds and then I am returned to the entranced screen, so no access to VT's (my monitor blacks out for a few seconds when changing resolution, this may or may not be the same blackout). Ctrl-Alt-Del won't reboot, so my only option is to kill the power. This usually doesn't happen when I run entranced manually, or invoke it's startup script manually. When the startup script is started as part of the boot sequence, it almost always happens. Sometimes it won't happen straight away, but will fail later. Running /etc/profile as part of the startup script, and also calling enlightenment through a wrapper script that first calls /etc/profile seems to fix it, mostly. I still get keyboard killed once in a while (happened once yesterday after a fresh boot). A related symptom (which is what prompted me to sprinkle /etc/profile) is that xawtv4 won't start up properly, it has trouble talking to the TV card, but other TV software (kdetv for instance) had no problem. Obviously this happens when I can login. Using xdm, kdm, gdm, and wdm doesn't display any of these problems. Wrapper scripts, and entranced writing to /var/run/entranced.pid itself caused other problems when I try to do the LSB standard startup script thing, which is the best way to integrate e17 into SuSE (9.3 Professional). Each of these problems will invoke the locked out keyboard problem if I try to work around them. The current working version has enlightenment spew debugging info all over my boot console (redirecting it to /dev/null invokes keyboard lockout), and needs an explicit 'killall -TERM entranced' and removal of the pid file in the startup script for the stop action. I also pass -nodeamon to entranced, call it via a wrapper, and call enlightenment via a wrapper. All the wrappers do is call /etc/profile first. I really want to use entranced and enlightenment, which is why I went to all the trouble of trying to get it to work. It is a lot of trouble, because it often works fine when run manually, but fails when boot starts it (booting SuSE takes a few minutes). Having the keyboard locked out makes debugging very tricky, as all I can do is power down the box, reboot into single user mode, swap to gdm, and reboot again. This is also why I haven't looked at the code yet. Yes, I could probably ssh into the box from a spare computer, but that's not possible at the moment. So, it's mostly working now, with only the odd time when I need to just power cycle my computer. But I would rather not have enlightenment spew info all over my boot console, and I would rather not have to explicitly kill entranced and remove it's pid file. For obvious reasons, I can't provide any gdb output, and any attempt to work around the various remaining problems invokes the keyboard lockout bug. Entranced is brittle and fussy, it's probably some sort of uninitialized memory or environment problem. Hope something in here gives some sort of clue. -- Stuff I have no control over could be added after this line. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
