From time to time I get in some of my machines consolekit init.d script failing to start, but no error is shown in console or logs. I need to manually drop "-q" option from start-stop-daemon call even when it shouldn't be needed since start-stop-daemon man page says that errors should be shown even with that option. I am not sure if this is a problem of start-stop-daemon, consolekit or if "-q" should be simply dropped. Thanks Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-tuxonice x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-tuxonice-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages multilib-strict parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict test test-fail-continue unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org" LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 applet avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdinstall cdr cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups daap dbus dell djvu dri dts dvd dvdr dvi eds emboss encode evo exif fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gif git glitz gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick java jpeg kdehiddenvisibility kpathsea laptop latex libnotify lm_sensors lyx lzma mad mikmod mmx mmxext modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network network-cron networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pch pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs t1lib tcpd threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vcd vdpau vorbis webkit x264 xattr xcb xml xmp xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
consolekit does not seem to have any setting to show more or less output on the console other than --debug. You say dropping -q from init script shows errors when it fails to start but what about when it succeeds ? Also, the -q option seems to not be implemented in openrc, maybe that's why I've never had this problem myself.
When it success it behaves exactly as currently, I mean, no cruft if shown at all :-) (and yes, I still use baselayout-1)
Pacho, any progress?
Looks like consolekit init.d script is still using "-q" but, since consolekit hasn't failed to start due other reasons for months, I even forget this problem :-/
This has been fixed, the init scripts were simplified in 1.0
