On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:21 -0500 Steve Bertrand <steve.bertr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012.02.15 17:57, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which > > desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them > > seem to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU > > hog, and once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > > > > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable > > it. I can't even figure out where exactly it's being started > > from. Whether it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some > > add-on tool somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain > > don't want it! :-) > > > > Any clues, anyone? I'm really worn out from trying to solve this > > one. > > Is there anything in /etc/rc.conf relating to this server? > > Steve Well, naturally, that was the first place I checked, along with probing /usr/local/etc, but no, I don't see any signs of anything anywhere that could be causing this thing to run. Nothing helpful in the package's plist, either. Undoubtedly, one of its REQUIRED_BYs is responsible, but none of them are making it easy to track down. It's really quite maddening. This thing is a persistent little bugger, I tell ya. I've tried manually killing it repeatedly, using various signals, and it just keeps resurrecting itself immediately, sometimes in even higher numbers, like some evil being in a horror movie. Kill one, and two or more spring up in its place. It's *evil*, I tell ya! :-) Well, where there's a will, there's a way. I'll get to the bottom of this eventually. I would just uninstall it, but then it will most likely be automatically reinstalled, too, when I upgrade something that depends on it. As Caiaphas sang in his menacing basso voice in "Jesus Christ Superstar", "We need a more permanent solution to our problem". :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
