[Slackbuilds-users] Slim

[Alan Ianson]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:50:44 +1100
Duncan Roe <duncan_roe at acslink.net.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 09:11:31AM +0100, Philip van der Hoeven wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 11-02-2015 07:19, Alan Ianson wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:45:11 +1100
> > > Duncan wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 07:19:26PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: On
> > > Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:40:56 -0800 Ryan wrote:
> > > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/slim/files/slim-1.3.6-freetype.patch?view=markup
> > > [1] Will do, thanks!
> >  If this works, let David Spencer <baildon.research at googlemail.com>
> > know to incorporate it. He is taking over slim. Thanks for the help
> > everyone! I grabbed this patch and added it to the slim.SlackBuild
> > and now it builds and packages fine. I am still getting this on my
> > console though.. Starting up X11 session manager... Starting up X11
> > session manager... Starting up X11 session manager... Starting up
> > X11 session manager... Starting up X11 session manager... Starting
> > up X11 session manager... Starting up X11 session manager...
> > Starting up X11 session manager... Starting up X11 session
> > manager... Starting up X11 session manager... INIT: Id "x1"
> > respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minites This repeats every 5
> > minutes. _______________________________________________ That's
> > normal init behaviour if a process that it starts crashes
> > immediately. Suggest you start it manually and debug,
> >
> > Slim is up and running normally but the init system doesn't seem to
> > know that. I'll keep looking..
> >
> > What is your slim start command ? Perhaps you forgot
> > 'exec' (without the qoutes) in front of it ?
> >
> > Philip
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1]
> > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/slim/files/slim-1.3.6-freetype.patch?view=markup
> 
> OTOH, you would get this scenario if you had an ampersand on the end
> of the init line (and had respawn). The actual command that init
> starts terminates, so init attempts the respawn. Presumably, the
> second (backgrounded server) instance fails to start in this case.
> 
> Leading on from that, might something other than init have started
> the server? Then init would not be able to start it. To check this:
> kill the server and see if init now settles down having restarted it.

I don't think so. The only command that starts slim is
in /etc/rc.d.rc.4. I just looked up slim in htop and terminated it and
slim fired up again waiting for someone to log in. I'll keep an eye out
if those respawn messages have gone away.

Thanks.. :)