a long time ago to change an IP address of say eth0 device I was instructed to pause network device, edit config file and issue 'rc' command to resume all network service. This approach was preferrable to doing net.eth0 stop and start. Recently, started to kill my xdm session. It is either because I have I think added syndaemon for my synaptics touchpad to my default runlevel or because something in besalayout or network scipt handling changed. The following I have axquired from console mode while at the moment no xdm session was running. Basically I just want to show that X is being accessed and that maybe really syndaemon is this cause killing X. # rc * Stopping gpm ... * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * /etc/conf.d/wireless is deprecated * Please put all settings in /etc/conf.d/net * Bringing up eth0 * 192.168.0.2/24 [ ok ] * Adding routes * default via 192.168.0.1 ... [ ok ] * Setting clock via the NTP client 'ntpdate' ... * Failed to set clock [ !! ] * Starting syndaemon ... Can't open display. # I might be wrong but I think this started to appear around the time when net.eth0 pause & rc started to restart openvpn.* tunnels during the procedure as well (which did not happen before). 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(In reply to comment #0) > Recently, started to kill my xdm session. It is either because I have I think > added syndaemon for my synaptics touchpad to my default runlevel or because > something in besalayout or network scipt handling changed. > > The following I have axquired from console mode while at the moment no xdm > session was running. Basically I just want to show that X is being accessed and > that maybe really syndaemon is this cause killing X. Remove syndaemon from any runlevel and never put it back. It won't *ever* work from any initscript, it's completely wrong place to start this thing. See Bug 37767.
OK, I have removed syndaemon from 'default' runlevel, all in my case. Then made sure no syndaemon process was running, did net.eth0 pause & rc, and still the rc command killed my current xdm session.
This got fixed in recent baselayout-1 series, cannot say exact version number. baselayout-2.0.0 does not support the restart argument. :( will have to file another bug report on that.
(In reply to comment #3) > This got fixed in recent baselayout-1 series, cannot say exact version number. > baselayout-2.0.0 does not support the restart argument. :( will have to file ----------------------------------------^ pause, sorry for the mistake Filed as bug #218859.
