[Lcdproc] Running Problems

[brian]

   good news or bad news??   I dunno.. depends on your point of view.

   bad news:  it's not loading/daemonizing properly, and needs to be addressed.

   good news: you (or I) are not the only one experiencing the problem, so it's probably not anything either of us is doing "wrong" 
but, rather, a legitimate error in the program.

   I *may* have some time this weekend to play around with the source and try a few things... but I'll make no promises.  From the 
source, and comments within it, it looks like this has been a problem in the past for LCDd, so perhaps we are the last hold-outs 
still having the problem.

   As a point of reference, I'm running Fedora Core 5, with a 2.6.18 kernel.  What distribution are you running, and what kernel?




Enzo Saturno wrote:
> Hey Brian...
> I followed your steps and... YES im having the same problem.. But is it 
> good or bad news?? : )
> 
> Any idea would be gracefull...
> 
> 
> */brian <turbo@talstar.com>/* escribió:
> 
>     Enzo --
> 
>     You may very well be seeing the same thing I'm seeing here. Try this:
> 
>     Open *two* terminal sessions on the computer hosting LCDd
>     In session one, start LCDd as you normally would
>     In session two, run `ps ax | grep LCDd`
>     - at this point, you may see two LCDd processes (parent & child),
>     plus the grep command you just ran
>     - take note of the process ID of the *first* LCDd process
>     - then, in session two, run `kill -SIGUSR1 ` (where is the
>     previously noted process id
>     See if the LCDd startup process in session one has returned to the
>     shell prompt
> 
>     If this seems to work for you, then you are having the same problem
>     with properly forking to the child process that I described
>     earlier in this list (and made mention of in yesterday's post). You
>     also won't be able to set LCDd to start automatically during
>     the boot process, since it'll hang there waiting for the signal back
>     from the child process (and, in my situation, you cannot do
>     anything about it yet, as the sshd daemon hasn't yet started, so I
>     can't get to the system to "push it along")
> 
> 
> 
>     Enzo Saturno wrote:
>      > Hi everybody, thax for the help before...
>      > Now when i run my LCDd server, this happens:
>      >
>      > [root@localhost lcdproc-0.5.2]# server/LCDd -c
>     /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
>      > LCDd version 0.5.2 starting
>      > Built on May 17 2007, protocol version 0.3, API version 0.5
>      > Using Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
>      > Set report level to 4, output to stderr
>      > Server forking to background
>      > Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666
>      > CFontz: using Device /dev/usb/tts/0
>      > Key "Escape" is now reserved in exclusive mode by client [-1]
>      > Key "Enter" is now reserved in shared mode by client [-1]
>      > Key "Up" is now reserved in shared mode by client [-1]
>      > Key "Down" is now reserved in shared mode by client [-1]
>      > Key "Left" is now reserved in shared mode by client [-1]
>      > Key "Right" is now reserved in shared mode by client [-1]
>      > screenlist_switch: switched to screen [_server_screen]
>      >
>      > And no commands can be executed.....
>      > At the same time, the display shows very very fast all the
>     characters
>      > until i run "ctrl z"
>      >
>      > I want to know how to start the software because i need to send some
>      > information to the display... Thanx again...
>      >
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