[Lcdproc] LCDd not loading properly

[Peter Marschall]

Hi,

On Monday, 16. April 2007 23:29, brian wrote:
> >    The problem occurs when I start LCDd (either by `service LCDd
> > start`,  or if I type `/usr/local/sbin/LCDd -c
> > /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf`).  The system prompt doesn't return after LCDd
> > server starts up.  If it Ctrl-C, I am returned to the system prompt and
> > the system (including LCDd!) perform normally.  Clients can connect to
> > and use the LCDd server normally.  Because of this behavior, if I enable
> > automatically loading LCDd with chkconfig, the boot-up process stops at
> > the point where the LCDd daemon is started.

This sounds really weird.

Unless foreground=on in LCDd.conf (or LCDd was called with option -f),
LCDd should deamonize itself and return to the command line-

I have no idea why that what you describe can happen.

Here are a few things to check that might help narrow things down:
- Does it happen later as well ?
- Are network and syslog up when LCDd is started ?
- Did you try to start LCDd with options -s0 -r5
  (or -s1 -r5) to see on the screen (in syslog) what happens ?
- Maybe you can add a few fore fprintf()'s or report()'s to
  the main() routine in server/main.c to see where it hangs.

Hope it helps.
Peter

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Peter Marschall
peter@adpm.de