On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Prince Mathew Samuel wrote:
> Yes I am sure, it is XFS. I removed XFS from my
> startup script and tried starting it separately from
> command line. This too results in XFS not going to the
> background. Any ideas?
Hmm. What version of xfs do you have? Is your init script significantly
different from mine? (attached)
--
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/xfs: start or stop the X font server
set -e
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/X11/xfs
PIDFILE=/var/run/xfs.pid
UPGRADEFILE=/var/run/xfs.upgrade
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
# If we upgraded the daemon, we can't use the --exec argument to
# start-stop-daemon since the inode will have changed. The risk here is that
# in a situation where the daemon died, its pidfile was not cleaned up, and
# some other process is now running under that pid, start-stop-daemon will send
# signals to an innocent process. However, this seems like a corner case.
# C'est la vie!
if [ -e $UPGRADEFILE ]; then
SSD_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON"
else
SSD_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON"
fi
stillrunning () {
if [ "$DAEMON" = "$(cat /proc/$DAEMONPID/cmdline 2> /dev/null)" ]; then
true
else
# if the daemon does not remove its own pidfile, we will
rm -f $PIDFILE $UPGRADEFILE
false
fi;
}
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting X font server: xfs"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet $SSD_ARGS -- -daemon || echo -n " already
running"
echo "."
;;
restart)
/etc/init.d/xfs stop
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
if stillrunning; then
exit 1
fi
fi
/etc/init.d/xfs start
;;
reload)
echo -n "Reloading X font server configuration..."
if start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet $SSD_ARGS; then
echo "done."
else
echo "xfs not running."
fi
;;
force-reload)
/etc/init.d/xfs reload
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping X font server: xfs"
if [ ! -f $PIDFILE ]; then
echo " not running ($PIDFILE not found)."
exit 0
else
DAEMONPID=$(cat $PIDFILE | tr -d '[:blank:]')
KILLCOUNT=1
if [ ! -e $UPGRADEFILE ]; then
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet $SSD_ARGS || echo -n " not running"
fi
while [ $KILLCOUNT -le 5 ]; do
if stillrunning; then
kill $DAEMONPID
else
break
fi
sleep 1
KILLCOUNT=$(expr $KILLCOUNT + 1)
done
if stillrunning; then
echo -n "not responding to TERM signal (pid $DAEMONPID)"
else
rm -f $UPGRADEFILE
fi
fi
echo "."
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/xfs {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
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