On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:42:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:31:36 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > > > > > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > > > > > > Somehow, the system-conf-services tool stopped working. > > > > Starting this brings up the tool, it hangs with a blank list > > > > and 'No services selected' in a greyed out right panel. > > > > > Isn't there anyone that can help me solve this one? I am really > > > pulling out my hair over this supposedly *simple* program > > > and I cannot for the life of me figure out why this sucker hangs! > > > > Be somewhat creative. No immediate need to debug the Python code in > > /usr/sbin/system-config-services, but you could move all service scripts > > from /etc/init.d to a backup location, install a single script and see > > whether that changes anything. With binary search you could find out > > whether any of the scripts causes s-c-s to malfunction. Else, next would > > be to empty /etc/rc.d/rc?.d (and/or examine it for circular links or > > similar damage) and see whether that helps. If it doesn't, real debugging > > might be necessary. > > > All of files moved out into a temp area and add one-by-one into the > respective > places? If so, do I remain in booted state and do a Kill -1 1 or > something to > test this out? What scares me is that if I reboot at each test, would I > be caught > in a state that I could never log in? > > Please advise how I should go about this? Don't reboot, don't kill anything, just restart system-config-services from within a terminal. It's just a quick test whether any service will show up or if the problem is entirely elsewhere. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
