rc scripts freerock gnome

brokenflea · 11-27-2005, 11:00 AM

i just finished upgrading to FRG Gnome 2.12 and during installation i said "No" to installing (don't know if that's the correct word) rc scripts. how do i go about letting it do those rc scripts. any help would be appreciated.

TIA

Douwe · 11-29-2005, 02:20 AM

rc.scripts ? which scripts exactly.
Could it be necessary to upgrade your Slackware 10.1 to 10.2?

My 5 EuroCents.
Douwe

titopoquito · 11-29-2005, 03:50 AM

I don't know if there is a routine for doing this, since I have gware installed. But you can search which packages would have installed a script in /etc/rc.d, I guess.
What do you get If you do a

Code:

find /var/log/packages -name "*frg.tgz" -exec grep -l "etc/rc.d" {} \;

You could then take a deeper look in the appropriate files in /var/log/packages to see if there really would have been installed a file in that directory (look at the FILE LIST section) and reinstall these packages.

Douwe · 11-29-2005, 01:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by titopoquito
I don't know if there is a routine for doing this, since I have gware installed. But you can search which packages would have installed a script in /etc/rc.d, I guess.
What do you get If you do a

Code:

find /var/log/packages -name "*frg.tgz" -exec grep -l "etc/rc.d" {} \;

You could then take a deeper look in the appropriate files in /var/log/packages to see if there really would have been installed a file in that directory (look at the FILE LIST section) and reinstall these packages.

Now I get the idea. (see my previous posting)
titopoquito's script did not do anything for me (i am running KDE now, but have FRG installed.

Code:

# cd /var/log/packages
# ls *frg
# find . -name "*frg" -exec grep -l "etc\/rc.d" \{\} \;

does the trick.
there are 4 rc-files issued by freerock.

this is appearently my new rc.local after having installed freerock:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.local:  Local system initialization script.
#
# Put any local setup commands in here:
#

##  some private settings remained, but are removed here.
## the following lines were inserted here at freerock install time

# To disable howl, chmod rc.howl to 644
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.howl ]; then
  echo "Starting Howl mDNS daemons"
  . /etc/rc.d/rc.howl start
fi

# To disable dbus, chmod rc.messagebus to 644
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus ]; then
  echo "Starting D-BUS Messaging Subsystem"
  . /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus start
fi

# To disable hal, chmod rc.hal to 644
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hal ]; then
        echo "Starting HAL"
        # wait a few seconds to let udev complete its
        # initialization.  Otherwise hald will not recognize CD/DVD
        # drives and will not start polling them
( sleep 5; /etc/rc.d/rc.hal start ) &
fi

These rc.owl, rc.dbus and rc.hal scripts exist indeed in /etc/rc.d.
they are NOT executable.
My problem is that I have no idea what purpose these scripts are for, what their use is, what they do?
I am not going to try them before I know what they do.
Could anyone explain, where I can find this.
freerock gnome runs fine as i am concerned.

My guess is that it matters which kernel you have, and how you configured it.

brokenflea · 11-29-2005, 01:52 PM

not sure exactly what rc.howl does, except rc.howl has something to do with dns and i think HAL makes easy for devices like cd-rom's, media cards and digital camera to mount on your machine.
i upgraded to slack 10.2 (kernel 2.6.10) now and installed Frg gnome 2.12.1, but the only problem with this is, everything seems to be crashing. everytime i try to change the desktop background, that crashes, theme manager crashes. bmpx crashes.
what i did notice is if i create another user and try to use Xnest to login everything works fine but if i login via gdm using any user profile everything's crashing. i'm not sure if anyone's having the same issue but if someone can point out what's going on i would really appreciate it. my gnome desktop is useless for now and i'm using XFCE until i figure out why gnome's kaputz.

titopoquito · 11-29-2005, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Douwe
Now I get the idea. (see my previous posting)
titopoquito's script did not do anything for me (i am running KDE now, but have FRG installed.

Code:

# cd /var/log/packages # ls *frg # find . -name "*frg" -exec grep -l "etc\/rc.d" \{\} \;

does the trick.

Oops, bad bad ".tgz"

titopoquito · 11-29-2005, 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Douwe
My guess is that it matters which kernel you have, and how you configured it.

From the Gware website, I think this should be correct for Freerock Gnome as well:

Quote:

The GWARE GNOME package set is a complete GNOME build that takes advantage of the powerful features of D-BUS and HAL, which rely on the hotplug system of the 2.6 kernel. Thus, a 2.6 kernel is highly recommended for use with GWARE.

Douwe · 11-29-2005, 05:40 PM

About these rc.howl, rc.dbus and rc.hal scripts:
I looked at the GWARE site (better info there then at freerock!) and googled around.
These seem to me highly experimental stuff for developers.
I will not use them now.
Unclear in any case is which common programs are using (one of) them.
If you are not a developer, you will not miss them.
I will enable them if it turns out that common programs need them.
Me personal don't like the freerock people put them in rc.local, which IMHO is for the user, not the distro-maker.
however I must admit: my personal stuff in rc.local was untouched.