Hi....
env: mandrake 10.1
running the network script in the /etc/init.d to initialize all network interface
configured .....
it initialize also the module gconfd-2 needed to mozilla....
i test it killing the gconfd-2 pid,and mozilla automatically start it...
then when mozilla close this process is still running....
is there a way to save computer memory and process to start this process
only on mozilla startup and close it when mozilla is closed ?
(i'm using the etc/host file so network script is needed at startup....)

thanks in advance

Maurizio

Hi.

I have Evolution (which uses gconfd) running 24/7, so I don't have a problem with gconfd running, but have a look here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/gconf-li.../msg00061.html
It seems gconfd should kill itself after a while anyway...

Dave

Hi

thanks for the answer.
i read the link....
but the behavoir is the same of the guy that open that post....
gconfd-2 started by /etc/initd/network script......
gconfd-2 is up and does not come down...
network script starts all configured network..so as first step i wonder how to avoid that network starts gconfd-2...
any help will be appreciated

Maurizio

Hi again.

I can see no reason gconfd would be needed by a network script. Could you have a look in /etc/init/network, and post and bits concerning gconfd?

Could you also post a 'ps -A' listing after gconfd has started?

Dave

Hi

here the ps -x
as i stop network with gconfd-2 is no more present...
it returns after network restarting
i search the test gconfd-2 in the network
script but i did not find it....
this is because i asked the debug option...to know which instruction call
gconfd-2 ....

ciao

Maurizio


or mozilla launch (i think this second is normal because ii see that mozilla requires it to run)

___________________________
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
3917 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
3996 ? S 0:00 magicdev
4011 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/gconfd-2 13
4012 ? Ss 0:00 kdeinit: Running...
4015 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid
4017 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher
4023 ? S 0:01 kdeinit: kded
4032 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kaccess
4033 ? S 0:00 kwrapper ksmserver
4035 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: ksmserver
4036 ? S 0:01 kdeinit: kwin
4038 ? S 0:02 kdeinit: kdesktop
4040 ? S 0:01 kdeinit: kicker
4041 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-bong/klauncherUGlm4a.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-bong/kdesktoplQXhSa.slave-socket
4042 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file /tmp/ksocket-bong/klauncherUGlm4a.slave-socket /tmp/ksocket-bong/kdesktopzTo6bc.slave-socket
4045 ? S 0:01 kdeinit: konsole --type shell
4046 pts/1 Ss 0:00 /bin/bash
4082 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps -x
4083 pts/1 S+ 0:00 tee syslog.txt

Could you post the contents of /etc/init/network?

Dave

here's the file.....

_____________________________

#! /bin/bash
#
# network Bring up/down networking
#
# chkconfig: 2345 10 90
# description: Activates/Deactivates all network interfaces configured to \
# start at boot time.
# probe: false
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: $network
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
echo "NETWORKING=no" > /etc/sysconfig/network
exit 0
fi

. /etc/sysconfig/network

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
fi


# Check that networking is up.
[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0

# if the ip configuration utility isn't around we can't function.
[ -x /sbin/ip ] || exit 1

# Even if IPX is configured, without the utilities we can't do much
[ ! -x /sbin/ipx_internal_net -o ! -x /sbin/ipx_configure ] && IPX=

# Even if VLAN is configured, without the utility we can't do much
[ ! -x /sbin/vconfig ] && VLAN=

# If IPv6 is explicitly configured, make sure it's available.
if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then
alias=`modprobe -c | awk '/^alias net-pf-10 / { print $3 }'`
if [ "$alias" != "ipv6" -a ! -f /proc/net/if_inet6 ]; then
case "$(modprobe -V 2>/dev/null)" in
modprobe* )
echo "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" >> /etc/modules.conf
;;
module-init-tools* )
echo "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
;;
esac
fi
fi

CWD=`pwd`
cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

. network-functions

# find all the interfaces besides loopback.
# ignore aliases, alternative configurations, and editor backup files
interfaces=`ls ifcfg* | LANG=C egrep -v '(ifcfg-lo|:|rpmsave|rpmorig|rpmnew)' | \
LANG=C egrep -v '(~|\.bak)$' | \
LANG=C egrep 'ifcfg-[A-Za-z0-9\._-]+$' | \
sed 's/^ifcfg-//g' |
sed 's/[0-9]/ &/' | LANG=C sort -k 1,1 -k 2n | sed 's/ //'`

boot=boot

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
# IPv6 hook (pre IPv4 start)
if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then
if [ -x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global ]; then
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global start pre
fi
fi

action "Setting network parameters: " sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf

if [ -r /etc/ethers -a -x /sbin/arp ]; then
action "Storing ARP mapping" /sbin/arp -f /etc/ethers
fi

# bring up loopback interface
action "Bringing up loopback interface: " ./ifup ifcfg-lo

case "$IPX" in
yes|true)
/sbin/ipx_configure --auto_primary=$IPXAUTOPRIMARY \
--auto_interface=$IPXAUTOFRAME
if [ "$IPXINTERNALNETNUM" != "0" ]; then
/sbin/ipx_internal_net add $IPXINTERNALNETNUM $IPXINTERNALNODENUM
fi
;;
esac
# depreciated but we still use it.
if [ -f /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ] && [[ "$FORWARD_IPV4" = "yes" || "$FORWARD_IPV4" = "true" ]];
then
action "Enabling IPv4 packet forwarding" sysctl -n -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
fi

case "$VLAN" in
yes)
if [ -d /proc/net/vlan ] || modprobe 8021q >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
action "Setting 802.1Q VLAN parameters: " /sbin/vconfig set_name_type DEV_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD
else
gprintf "No 802.1Q VLAN support available in kernel.\n"
fi
;;
esac

vlaninterfaces=""
cipeinterfaces=""
xdslinterfaces=""
bridgeinterfaces=""

# bring up all other interfaces configured to come up at boot time
for i in $interfaces; do
eval $(LANG=C fgrep "DEVICE=" ifcfg-$i)
eval $(LANG=C fgrep "TYPE=" ifcfg-$i)
eval $(LANG=C fgrep "SLAVE=" ifcfg-$i)
eval $(LANG=C fgrep "BRIDGE=" ifcfg-$i)

if [ -z "$DEVICE" ] ; then DEVICE="$i"; fi

if [ "${DEVICE##cipcb}" != "$DEVICE" ] ; then
cipeinterfaces="$cipeinterfaces $i"
unset DEVICE TYPE SLAVE BRIDGE
continue
fi
if [ "$TYPE" = "xDSL" ]; then
xdslinterfaces="$xdslinterfaces $i"
unset DEVICE TYPE SLAVE BRIDGE
continue
fi

if [ -n "$BRIDGE" ]; then
is_available $i
bridgeinterfaces="$bridgeinterfaces $i"
unset DEVICE TYPE SLAVE BRIDGE
continue
fi

if [ "${DEVICE%%.*}" != "$DEVICE" ] ; then
vlaninterfaces="$vlaninterfaces $i"
unset DEVICE TYPE SLAVE BRIDGE
continue
fi

if [ "$SLAVE" = "yes" ]; then
unset DEVICE TYPE SLAVE BRIDGE
continue
fi

if LANG=C egrep -L "^ONBOOT=['\"]?[Nn][Oo]['\"]?" ifcfg-$i > /dev/null ; then
# this loads the module, to preserve ordering
is_available $i
continue
fi
# If we're in confirmation mode, get user confirmation.
[ -f /var/run/confirm ] &&
{
confirm $i
case $? in
0)
:
;;
2)
CONFIRM=
;;
*)
continue
;;
esac
}
if [ "${DEVICE:0:3}" != "eth" -o ${DEVICE/:/} != ${DEVICE} -o ! -x /sbin/ifplugd ] || grep -q '^MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes\|^BOOTPROTO=static' ifcfg-$i; then
action "Bringing up interface %s: " $i ./ifup $DEVICE $boot
else
IFPLUGD_ARGS="${IFPLUGD_ARGS=-w -b}"
action "Bringing up interface %s: " $i /sbin/ifplugd $IFPLUGD_ARGS -i $DEVICE
fi
done

# Bring up xDSL and CIPE interfaces
for i in $vlaninterfaces $bridgeinterfaces $xdslinterfaces $cipeinterfaces ; do
if ! LANG=C egrep -L "^ONBOOT=['\"]?[Nn][Oo]['\"]?" ifcfg-$i >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
# If we're in confirmation mode, get user confirmation.
if [ -f /var/run/confirm ]; then
confirm $i
test $? = 1 && continue
fi
action "Bringing up interface %s: " $i ./ifup $i boot
fi
done

# Add non interface-specific static-routes.
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/static-routes ]; then
grep "^any" /etc/sysconfig/static-routes | while read ignore args ; do
/sbin/route add -$args
done
fi

# IPv6 hook (post IPv4 start)
if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then
if [ -x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global ]; then
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global start post
fi
fi

touch /var/lock/subsys/network
;;
stop)
# If this is a final shutdown/halt, check for network FS,
# and unmount them even if the user didn't turn on netfs

if [ "$RUNLEVEL" = "6" -o "$RUNLEVEL" = "0" -o "$RUNLEVEL" = "1" ]; then
NFSMTAB=`LC_ALL=C awk '!/^#/ && $3 == "nfs" { print $2 }' /proc/mounts`
SMBMTAB=`LC_ALL=C awk '!/^#/ && $3 == "smbfs" { print $2 }' /proc/mounts`
NCPMTAB=`LC_ALL=C awk '!/^#/ && $3 == "ncpfs" { print $2 }' /proc/mounts`
if [ -n "$NFSMTAB" -o -n "$SMBMTAB" -o -n "$NCPMTAB" ] ; then
/etc/init.d/netfs stop
fi
fi

# IPv6 hook (pre IPv4 stop)
if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then
if [ -x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global ]; then
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global stop pre
fi
fi

vlaninterfaces=""
cipeinterfaces=""
xdslinterfaces=""
bridgeinterfaces=""
remaining=""

# get list of bonding, cipe, and xdsl interfaces
for i in $interfaces; do
eval $(LANG=C fgrep "DEVICE=" ifcfg-$i)
eval $(LANG=C fgrep "TYPE=" ifcfg-$i)
eval $(LANG=C fgrep "BRIDGE=" ifcfg-$i)

if [ -z "$DEVICE" ] ; then DEVICE="$i"; fi

if [ "${DEVICE##cipcb}" != "$DEVICE" ] ; then
cipeinterfaces="$cipeinterfaces $i"
unset DEVICE TYPE BRIDGE
continue
fi
if [ -n "$BRIDGE" ]; then
bridgeinterfaces="$bridgeinterfaces $i"
unset DEVICE TYPE BRIDGE
continue
fi
if [ "$TYPE" = "xDSL" ]; then
xdslinterfaces="$xdslinterfaces $i"
unset DEVICE TYPE BRIDGE
continue
fi

if [ "${DEVICE%%.*}" != "$DEVICE" ] ; then
vlaninterfaces="$vlaninterfaces $i"
unset DEVICE TYPE SLAVE BRIDGE
continue
fi
remaining="$remaining $i"
unset DEVICE TYPE BRIDGE
done

for i in $cipeinterfaces $xdslinterfaces $bridgeinterfaces $vlaninterfaces; do
eval $(fgrep "DEVICE=" ifcfg-$i)
if [ -z "$DEVICE" ] ; then DEVICE="$i"; fi

if ! check_device_down $DEVICE; then
action "Shutting down interface %s: " $i ./ifdown $i boot
fi
done

# shut down all interfaces (other than loopback)
for i in $remaining ; do
eval $(fgrep "DEVICE=" ifcfg-$i)
if [ -z "$DEVICE" ] ; then DEVICE="$i"; fi

if ! check_device_down $DEVICE; then
action "Shutting down interface %s: " $i ./ifdown $i boot
fi
done

# kill all the ifplugd instances
/usr/bin/killall ifplugd > /dev/null 2>&1

case "$IPX" in
yes|true)
if [ "$IPXINTERNALNETNUM" != "0" ]; then
/sbin/ipx_internal_net del
fi
;;
esac

action "Shutting down loopback interface: " ./ifdown ifcfg-lo

if [ -d /proc/sys/net/ipv4 ]; then
if [ -f /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ]; then
if [ `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward` != 0 ]; then
action "Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding: " sysctl -n -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=0
fi
fi
if [ -f /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag ]; then
if [ `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag` != 0 ]; then
action "Disabling IPv4 automatic defragmentation: " sysctl -n -w net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag=0
fi
fi
fi
if [ -f /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies ];then
if [ `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies` != 0 ]; then
sysctl -n -w net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=0
fi
fi

# IPv6 hook (post IPv4 stop)
if [ "$NETWORKING_IPV6" = "yes" ]; then
if [ -x /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global ]; then
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/init.ipv6-global stop post
fi
fi

rm -f /var/lock/subsys/network
;;
status)
gprintf "Configured devices:\n"
echo lo $interfaces

gprintf "Currently active devices:\n"
echo `/sbin/ip -o link show | awk -F ": " '/UP>/ { print $2 }'`
;;
restart|reload)
cd "$CWD"
$0 stop
interfaces="$active"
boot=""
$0 start
;;
*)
gprintf "Usage: %s\n" "$(basename $0) {start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0

Hmmm.

The only pacakges in Mandrake whicg require GConfd are Gnome based app, so there's no reason at all for the network script to be calling it.

Go into /etc/inittab, and change 'id:5:initdefault:' to 'id:3:initdefault:' to boot into text mode.

Then reboot and let the network script start, and have a look at 'ps -A' and see if gconfd is running.

Dave

Hi Dave

i restart the computer into runlevel 3
network script still enbled,but gconfd-2
is no more running......

actions.....
start computer runlevel 5
at the end of initialization
gconfd-2 is running
./network stop
gconfd-2 no more running
./network start
gconfd-2 does not come up
reboot
gconfd-2 is running
./network stop
gconfd-2 no more running
ps -axu
i killed a process named :0
this cause kde to close and restart....
this process at the end bring up again
gconfd-2

i was thinking about network because the stop command kill the gconfd-2 process...
but i realize now that the process that
bring up it is the window manager initialization

if i kill gconfd-2 then kde function normally...
up to now the application that absolutely need it is mozilla browser....

Maurizio