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Did a emerge world this evening, as I has not updated for a while.
Anyhow, it needed quite a few etc merges. I was quite careful what I
merged (I use Beyond Compare from my Windows PC, across FTP to merge).
The problem I have now, is that when I start up, some services do not
start:

Runlevel: default
local [
off ]
netmount [
started ]
domainname [
started ]
net.eth0 [
started ]
sshd [
started ]
syslog-ng [
started ]
vixie-cron [
off ]
pure-ftpd [
off ]
apache2 [
started ]
mysql [
started ]
alsasound [
started ]
sendmail [
off ]
iptables [
started ]



If however, after starting, I do a:

/etc/init.d/local start

It all comes up OK... What could be causing this? This is a headless
system that I access via sshd, so I do not know if anything is displayed
to the console during boot (is it logged anywhere??? I know about dmesg,
but it's after that bit of bootup)

Thanks.

Zapp Brannigan wrote:
> Did a emerge world this evening, as I has not updated for a while.
> Anyhow, it needed quite a few etc merges. I was quite careful what I
> merged (I use Beyond Compare from my Windows PC, across FTP to merge).
> The problem I have now, is that when I start up, some services do not
> start:
>
> Runlevel: default
> local [
> off ]
> netmount [
> started ]
> domainname [
> started ]
> net.eth0 [
> started ]
> sshd [
> started ]
> syslog-ng [
> started ]
> vixie-cron [
> off ]
> pure-ftpd [
> off ]
> apache2 [
> started ]
> mysql [
> started ]
> alsasound [
> started ]
> sendmail [
> off ]
> iptables [
> started ]
>
>
>
> If however, after starting, I do a:
>
> /etc/init.d/local start
>
> It all comes up OK... What could be causing this? This is a headless
> system that I access via sshd, so I do not know if anything is displayed
> to the console during boot (is it logged anywhere??? I know about dmesg,
> but it's after that bit of bootup)
>
> Thanks.

Have you tried an 'rc-update add <service> default' on the services that
aren't starting?

MM

The system logs are at /var/log/messages.

Zapp Brannigan wrote:
> Did a emerge world this evening, as I has not updated for a while.
> Anyhow, it needed quite a few etc merges. I was quite careful what I
> merged (I use Beyond Compare from my Windows PC, across FTP to merge).
> The problem I have now, is that when I start up, some services do not
> start:
>
> Runlevel: default
> local [
> off ]
> netmount [
> started ]
> domainname [
> started ]
> net.eth0 [
> started ]
> sshd [
> started ]
> syslog-ng [
> started ]
> vixie-cron [
> off ]
> pure-ftpd [
> off ]
> apache2 [
> started ]
> mysql [
> started ]
> alsasound [
> started ]
> sendmail [
> off ]
> iptables [
> started ]
>
>
>
> If however, after starting, I do a:
>
> /etc/init.d/local start
>
> It all comes up OK... What could be causing this? This is a headless
> system that I access via sshd, so I do not know if anything is displayed
> to the console during boot (is it logged anywhere??? I know about dmesg,
> but it's after that bit of bootup)
>
> Thanks.

MM wrote:
> Zapp Brannigan wrote:
>
>> Did a emerge world this evening, as I has not updated for a while.
>> Anyhow, it needed quite a few etc merges. I was quite careful what I
>> merged (I use Beyond Compare from my Windows PC, across FTP to merge).
>> The problem I have now, is that when I start up, some services do not
>> start:
>>
>> Runlevel: default
>> local [
>> off ]
>> netmount [
>> started ]
>> domainname [
>> started ]
>> net.eth0 [
>> started ]
>> sshd [
>> started ]
>> syslog-ng [
>> started ]
>> vixie-cron [
>> off ]
>> pure-ftpd [
>> off ]
>> apache2 [
>> started ]
>> mysql [
>> started ]
>> alsasound [
>> started ]
>> sendmail [
>> off ]
>> iptables [
>> started ]
>>
>>
>>
>> If however, after starting, I do a:
>>
>> /etc/init.d/local start
>>
>> It all comes up OK... What could be causing this? This is a headless
>> system that I access via sshd, so I do not know if anything is
>> displayed to the console during boot (is it logged anywhere??? I know
>> about dmesg, but it's after that bit of bootup)
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
> Have you tried an 'rc-update add <service> default' on the services that
> aren't starting?
>
> MM
>

You can check which services are set to start (and at which runlevels) with
rc-update show

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Ben Measures wrote:
> MM wrote:
>
>> Zapp Brannigan wrote:
>>
>>> Did a emerge world this evening, as I has not updated for a while.
>>> Anyhow, it needed quite a few etc merges. I was quite careful what I
>>> merged (I use Beyond Compare from my Windows PC, across FTP to
>>> merge). The problem I have now, is that when I start up, some
>>> services do not start:
>>>
>>> Runlevel: default
>>> local [
>>> off ]
>>> netmount [
>>> started ]
>>> domainname [
>>> started ]
>>> net.eth0 [
>>> started ]
>>> sshd [
>>> started ]
>>> syslog-ng [
>>> started ]
>>> vixie-cron [
>>> off ]
>>> pure-ftpd [
>>> off ]
>>> apache2 [
>>> started ]
>>> mysql [
>>> started ]
>>> alsasound [
>>> started ]
>>> sendmail [
>>> off ]
>>> iptables [
>>> started ]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If however, after starting, I do a:
>>>
>>> /etc/init.d/local start
>>>
>>> It all comes up OK... What could be causing this? This is a headless
>>> system that I access via sshd, so I do not know if anything is
>>> displayed to the console during boot (is it logged anywhere??? I know
>>> about dmesg, but it's after that bit of bootup)
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Have you tried an 'rc-update add <service> default' on the services
>> that aren't starting?
>>
>> MM
>>
>
> You can check which services are set to start (and at which runlevels) with
> rc-update show
>

The services that are not starting, should be according to re-update show...

rc-update show
alsasound | default
apache2 | default
bootmisc | boot
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
consolefont | boot
crypto-loop |
domainname | default
giptables |
gpm |
hdparm |
hostname | boot
iptables | default
keymaps | boot
local | default
localmount | boot
modules | boot
mysql | default
net.eth0 | default
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
nscd |
numlock |
pure-ftpd | default
rmnologin | boot
rsyncd |
sendmail | default
serial | boot
sshd | default
switch |

Zapp Brannigan wrote:

> Ben Measures wrote:
>
>> MM wrote:
>>
>>> Zapp Brannigan wrote:
>>>

Well I got to the bottom of the problem - the hard way, I dragged a
monitor down and plugged it in. The boot process was hanging at
Restoring IP Tables, therefore never completing the boot, and not
running the later services (which explained what they ran OK manually).
Removing IP tables from the boot process puts everthing back OK agin
(but no IP firewall).

It's a real pain in the arse, how the 2nd stage of the boot process is
not logged anywhere, I would have been able to find this problem alot
quicker...