Re: supervise not running

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 21:31 +0930, Daryl Tester wrote:
> Larry Weldon wrote:
> 
> > No. The log only ever had an entry when it was run manually as:
> > svscanboot & 
> 
> Ah, I wasn't aware that you had done that - in which case it makes
> perfect sense that nothing was recorded in the log after the svscan
> invocation because running it from the command line works.  
> concatenate has nailed it.
> 

Yes. In fact I was thus pointed in a new direction. I found a kernel
option - nopinit - no parallel init - which stops the kernel from
running the rc scripts in parallel. Thus they run one at a time in
sequence and you can tell which one(s) don't start. It was interesting
to note that when the kernel does not run rc scripts in parallel the
machine will not boot if a process hangs. And I had two such.

haldaemon wasn't starting (and I had already found that) and httpd
wasn't starting. Although I had seen that, as well, I mistakenly thought
it meant that _nothing_ was starting. 

So now the machine starts OK but I have to figure out what's wrong with
some hardware and with apache (et al).

Thanks to you and concatenate I learned more about how the startup
works. 

I must thank the list again for their forbearance since this turned out
to be OT.

Larry