[Mageia-dev] Graphical Boot stalled in current cauldron

Tue Nov 6 23:01:01 CET 2012

On 11/06/2012 04:01 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> Curious indeed. Can you pastebin/attach the initscript and give the 
+> full status output after the failure? Cheers Col 
+This is nuts.  For the instance I started successfully with 
+SKIP_REDIRECT, a straight "service oracle-xe stop" from a bash session 
+without SKIP_REDIRECT worked, and brought it down.  A subsequent 
+"service oracle-xe start" worked.  As did another stop/start.
+
+So, as a result (apparently) of a successful start of oracle-xe, now 
+everything works again.
+
+Here's one possibility: Before I tried the SKIP_REDIRECT, I modified the 
+"start" statement in the script to eliminate a ">/dev/null 2>&1" in the 
+hopes of getting some diagnostics.  Then I did a "systemctl --system 
+daemon-reload".  It still failed, and I didn't get any output that I 
+could find, but maybe the reload had something to do with the eventual 
+success (I can't see how).
+
+I restored the ">/dev/null 2>&1" and did another reload, but everything 
+still worked.  Is it possible that whatever is supposed to suck the 
+initscript into the systemd universe isn't quite doing the job ?  That 
+still wouldn't explain the failure after the reload but before the 
+SKIP_REDIRECT, but it might have some bearing.
+
+If you want to test this, you can get the RPM at 
+http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/express-edition/downloads/index.html. 
+Install it and add your own LSB headers to the initscript, run 
+"/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure" and take all the defaults, and you're 
+good to go.  As it's an RPM, it's easy and clean to get rid of when 
+you're done.  My gut tells me that I'm not going to get this to fail 
+again unless I do a fresh install.
+
+Thanks,
+Frank
+