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How do I shut down fwupd when it's not a service?
I'm running Devuan Excalibur (like Debian Trixie, but without systemd).
I notice that fwupd is running; and I know that on some other systems, fwupd is actually service, which can be taken down using ...
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Docker attach on a container running /sbin/init
I run a Cisco XRd docker container on my Linux Ubuntu host. I run the image using docker run -it -d command. The image's entrypoint is /usr/sbin/init, indeed:
root@eve-ng-6:/opt/unetlab/html# docker ...
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systemd-random-seed.service takes a lot of time to start / timeout
I have a Linux device with several services of my own.
Kernel: 4.14.151
systemd: systemd 249 (249.11-0ubuntu3.12)
My services are written as sysvinit services and automatically generated as systemd ...
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start-stop-daemon does not start because: "process already running"
I have an init script to start qbittorrent-nox on my server. It works fine when I first start the server, but if I shut down the qbittorrent-nox process (service qbittorrent stop) it will not start ...
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Why can I not upgrade sysv-rc-conf on Debian as it's held back? (is there an alternative tool)
Why was sysv-rc-conf removed from the Debian repos? Is there for example a better alternative with a GUI?
When I run sudo apt-get upgrade it's the only package held back:
The following packages have ...
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Debian Bookworm (SysV init): ISC dhcpd hangs during boot
I have a VM that is acting as a DC for a Windows VM, however, due to some shenanigans that systemd had been playing repeatedly (the boot process would hang inexplicably with the CPU load going ...
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Why does KDE's Discover and Apper show "orphan-sysvinit-scripts" should be updated but not apt-get upgrade --- should it be installed?
After upgrading to Debain12 with KDE, the package managers Apper and Discover show that a package "orphan-sysvinit-scripts" should be updated.
But I don't have that package installed so why ...
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What approach is recommended for defining important startup processes? (Independent of shell)
Note on formatting
I've gone back and added bold text to my specific questions, because I feel the details have lead to the question getting lost. However, the details are kind of necessary to ...
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Apache refuses to start claiming a wrong PID
I'm facing an odd problem on a Buildroot environment for RPi3.
I have this init.d service to start apache2 (version 2.4.57):
# cat /etc/init.d/S50apache
#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start|...
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Manual removal of Nvidia driver fails due to init and busybox
I'm using PorteuX (Slackware based) and in the shutdown/reboot process I want to unmount everything, which works fine unless I boot with Nvidia drivers. In this case, just before reboot -f step if I ...
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ssh connection hangs on server shutdown / restart
When I shut down or restart my server while logged in via SSH, the SSH connection hangs or freezes. The terminal becomes completely unresponsive, and it takes up to one minute for the SSH session to ...
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How to start and manage a process in busybox inittab, and rcS as early as possible?
I am working on an embedded Linux system where busybox is being used as init.
I have 2 requirements on running my application.
My application needs to start as early as possible;
It needs to be ...
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Stop not called for init rc.d service
I have a very simple SysVinit service in /etc/rc.d:
#!/bin/bash
PIDFILE="/var/run/test.pid"
status() {
if [ -f "$PIDFILE" ]; then
echo 'Service running'
return 1
fi
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init.d script for a foreground program
I have to write a portal init.d script for a program that runs on foreground (no daemon option; no pidfile option) and logs to stdout/stderr.
The program should log into syslog service. The program ...
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Application does not start from inittab
I am trying to launch an application via inittab in an embedded system. The desire to do this via inittab rather than through an init.d script is to avail of respawn. There is no systemd on this ...
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