trouble with some startup items

Sun Jul 8 21:58:11 UTC 2007

On Sunday 08 July 2007 15:49:38 Yuri Pankov wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 03:37:10PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> > ive been trying to figure out this problem for a while now.  i have 2
> > things that are having trouble starting.  apcupsd and samba.  i recently
> > noticed, that during start up, they are printed more than once to the
> > console (and to my /var/log/console.log.  here is the output of my most
> > recent reboot:
> >
> > Jul  8 15:24:05 athena kernel: Starting syslogd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:05 athena kernel: Initial i386 initialization:
> > Jul  8 15:24:05 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:05 athena kernel: Additional ABI support:
> > Jul  8 15:24:05 athena kernel: linux
> > Jul  8 15:24:07 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:07 athena kernel: Setting date via ntp.
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: 8 Jul 15:24:09 ntpdate[609]: step time
> > server 24.162.39.167 offset 1.666967 sec
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Starting rpcbind.
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: NFS access cache time=60
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Starting mountd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Starting nfsd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Starting apcupsd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Starting apcupsd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Starting local daemons:
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Updating motd
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Mounting late file systems:
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Starting ntpd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:09 athena kernel: Starting usbd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:10 athena kernel: Starting cupsd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:10 athena kernel: Starting cupsd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:10 athena kernel: Removing stale Samba tdb files:
> > Jul  8 15:24:10 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:10 athena last message repeated 7 times
> > Jul  8 15:24:10 athena kernel: done
> > Jul  8 15:24:10 athena kernel: Starting nmbd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:10 athena kernel: Starting smbd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: Removing stale Samba tdb files:
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena last message repeated 5 times
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: done
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: Starting nmbd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: Starting smbd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: Starting snmpd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: Starting snmpd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: Configuring syscons:
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: blanktime
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:11 athena kernel: Starting sshd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:12 athena kernel: Starting cron.
> > Jul  8 15:24:12 athena kernel: Local package initialization:
> > Jul  8 15:24:12 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:12 athena kernel: Additional TCP options:
> > Jul  8 15:24:12 athena kernel: .
> > Jul  8 15:24:12 athena kernel: Starting inetd.
> > Jul  8 15:24:12 athena kernel: Starting background file system checks in
> > 60 seconds.
> > Jul  8 15:24:12 athena kernel:
> > Jul  8 15:24:12 athena kernel: Sun Jul  8 15:24:12 CDT 2007
> > Jul  8 15:24:19 athena kernel: Jul  8 15:24:19 athena apcupsd[689]:
> > apcupsd FATAL ERROR in bsd-usb.c at line 711 Cannot find UPS device --
> > For a link to detailed USB trouble shooting information, please see
> > <http://www.apcupsd.com/support.html>.
> > Jul  8 15:24:19 athena kernel: Jul  8 15:24:19 athena apcupsd[689]: Valid
> > lock file for pid=685, but not ours pid=689
> > Jul  8 15:24:19 athena kernel: Jul  8 15:24:19 athena apcupsd[689]:
> > apcupsd error shutdown completed
> >
> > also, here is my /etc/rc.conf file.  ive double checked it, and these
> > items arent listed twice (not even sure if that would matter if it were).
> >
> > # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Jun 16 12:58:58 2006
> > # Created: Fri Jun 16 12:58:58 2006
> > # Enable network daemons for user convenience.
> > # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> > # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> > hostname="athena.dfwlp.com"
> > ifconfig_bge0="DHCP"
> > devfs_system_ruleset="localrules"
> > sshd_enable="YES"
> > usbd_enable="YES"
> > ntpdate_enable="YES"
> > ntpdate_hosts="0.us.pool.ntp.org"
> > snmpd_enable="YES"
> > inetd_enable="YES"
> > inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.168.125.83"
> > ntpd_enable="YES"
> > linux_enable="YES"
> > rpcbind_enable="YES"
> > nfs_server_enable="YES"
> > mountd_flags="-r"
> > nfs_client_enable="YES"
> > # vsftpd_enable="YES"
> > cupsd_enable="YES"
> > samba_enable="YES"
> > apcupsd_enable="YES"
> >
> > can anyone give me any guesses as to where i need to take a look as to
> > what could be attempting the 2nd starts of these 2 items?  also, simply
> > restarting apcupsd will fail, but if i killall apcupsd then start it
> > fresh, it works for the duration of my uptime (somehow the pid that stays
> > running gets disassociated from the pid file).  samba is similar
> > behavior.  my windows computer cannot access the samba, until it is
> > restarted (samba restarts normally without any troubles).
> >
> > any clues at all, would be appreciated.  cheers,
> > --
> > Jonathan Horne
> > http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
> > freebsd at dfwlp.com
>
> It happens because you now have /usr/X11R6 symlinked to /usr/local and
> local_startup rc variable still points to both. Insert
> local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" to /etc/rc.conf. And, BTW, this is
> one of the tasks that /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh performs
> (this is mentioned in /usr/ports/UPDATING).
>
>
> HTH,
> Yuri

that was it!! thank you so much! 

interesting thing, is that this system was a complete rebuild from the ground 
up, after the 7.2 was introduced into the ports.  i did still have to set the 
variable XORG_UPGRADE=yes, but i didnt bother with any other other upgrading 
hoop-tricks since this system was totally fresh.

cheers,
-- 
Jonathan Horne
http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
freebsd at dfwlp.com