rc.local doesn't run in Hardy
 

I've seen it mentioned elsewhere on the net that rc.local doesn't run on boot up in the recently released Hardy. I've not seen anything about a solution in my adventures though. Has anyone else run into a solution that I may have missed?

Thanks. ;)

That happened to me a while ago on a different distro. It turned out that one of the service was failing, so startup never actually completed. That is, one of the executable scripts in /etc/init.d/ would fail and hang. The X server worked, so it wasn't totally obvious there was a problem.

I tracked it down by closely watching the screen during boot to see that last thing displayed before X took over, looking at the logs in /var/log/, and disabling services one by one until startup completed.

Hi,

Have you set the execute bit for rc.local?

I run Hardy and have no such problem. By default it's only command is "exit 0". I changed mine to get my Palm E2 recognized and it always runs successfuly. Ken Jackson's suggestion is a good one.