On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:45:01PM +0530, Deboo wrote: > I installed some ham radio programs and accidentally also installed the > rspf daemon. Now the next time I booted my machine, it would get > stuck/hung starting rspfd and whatever I do, I couldn't get to the login > prompt. > > Pressing Ctrl-C when init started didn't help. So, I booted with an old > 2.2 kernel I had on my grub menu list. It didn't have proc support and > failed to load lots of modules including this rspfd and I got a single > user root prompt, mounted the root partion readonly. I remounted it rw and > ran update-rc.d to remove rspfd but at next reboot it's again there and > hung the machine. > > Running apt-get remogve --purge or dpkg -r didn't help either. They both > gave errors and said they can't remove rspfd. So, I listed the files rspfd > had installed with dpkg -L and remove each of them manually. There was > nothing else I could have done I think. > > But now while running apt-get or dpkg, I always get the error about not > able to configure rspfd. It's irritating, tho doesn't cause any problems. > How do I get rid of this message eveytime I install anything?
Well, I'm not sure why you couldn't apt-get remove it - hard to guess without knowing what the error message was... Perhaps you could reinstall it, then before you reboot, remove the symlink that starts it on boot (see below...) > Secondly, where would I get to read about the init process in debian? I > mean like the update-rc.d thing. Which is the file that debian uses to > start things at startup other than /etc/rc.boot? Like the rc.local file in > RH/Mandrake? Things are started by means of the scripts in /etc/init.d, which are called by means of symlinks in /etc/rc?.d. First all the symlinks in /etc/rcS.d are called, then all the symlinks in the directory appropriate to the runlevel you're starting in, by default /etc/rc2.d. The quick and dirty way to stop any service being started on boot is to locate the appropriate symlink in the above directories, and delete it. 'rm /etc/rc?.d/S??rspfd' should do the trick. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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