all startup scripts past S30gdm do not execute

[Admin]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 07:52 -0700, Admin wrote:
>> HI List,
>>
>> my startup scripts are not executing scripts past S30gdm.  So I put a 
>> line /sbin/sulogin in the script and finally figured out where the 
>> script is hanging and never returning.  How can I cure the problem?
>>
>> ---- snip ---
>>
>>                  start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile
>> $PIDFILE -\
>> -name gdm $SSD_ARG -- $CONFIG_FILE >/dev/null 2>&1 || log_end_msg 1echo
>>
>> --- snip ---
>>
>> What is the Best approach for allowing the start-stop-daemon to execute
>> while allowing the script to continue?
> 
> I don't know if this helps or not, but the end of your line to launch
> the start-stop-daemon is different from mine, and looks malformed to
> begin with (i.e. the "log_end_msg 1echo" part). Here's what mine looks
> like... maybe that will help:
> 
> <from="/etc/rc2.d/S30gdm" @ "BEC-LIN">
> 
>         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --name
> gdm $SSD_ARG -- $CONFIG_FILE >/dev/null 2>&1 || log_end_msg 1
>         $log_end_msg 0
> 
> </from>
> 
> 
> 
>> ~$ ps -auxww | grep S30
>> Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
>> http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
>> root      3246  0.0  0.0   1872   584 ?        S    12:25   0:00 /bin/sh
>> /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm start
>> root      3662  0.0  0.4  26724 16316 ?        S    14:07   0:01 emacs
>> /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm
>> noah      4034  0.0  0.0   3376   908 pts/2    S+   17:44   0:00 less
>> /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm
>> noah      4156  0.0  0.0   3340   808 pts/3    S+   18:30   0:00 grep S30
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Noah
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
emacs truncated it.  the line actually matches your line.