[Mageia-dev] Starting DM service - fails during boot

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 01/12/11 11:59 did gyre and gimble:
> I have a Cauldron box which doesn't start DM when booted - and when I
> check in Drakxservices, and check "start on boot" - it doesn't work
> (resets back to not starting.
> 
> Once the machine has started, I can manually start the DM service.
> 
> BTW, I am NOT using systemd (although it is installed:
> 
> 
> [root at minifox rfox]# rpm -qa | grep sysvinit
> sysvinit-2.87-10.mga1
> sysvinit-tools-2.87-10.mga1
> 
> [root at minifox rfox]# rpm -qa | grep systemd
> lib64systemd-daemon0-37-13.mga2
> systemd-units-37-13.mga2
> systemd-37-13.mga2
> lib64systemd-login0-37-13.mga2
> 

> [root at minifox rfox]# drakxservices 

> Warning: unit files do not carry install information. No operation
> executed.
> 
> Any advice would be welcome -


Interesting. It seems we're using systemctl to enable the service on
this setup rather than /sbin/service...

I'll take a look at this soon.

Col


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