F9: Problem with Services tool

Dan Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Fri Jul 11 15:40:47 UTC 2008


Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
> Dan Thurman wrote:
> > Yes, I have pored over the man pages and it mentions hanging but
> > *very* limited data.  FYI: it worked until I did *something* (like
> > install many packages) and somehow it broke it.
>
> Here's one suggestion: Remove the packages you installed that provide
> services (files in /etc/init.d or /etc/xinetd.d) until you find which
> one has caused the problem.  Then report it as a bug either in that
> package or the system-config-services packages.
>
> It seems that you've run into some bugs that are caused by poorly
> packaged software in the distribution (based on your man page problem
> yesterday).  This shouldn't happen, but installing nearly everything
> isn't a configuration that gets a lot of testing.  If you do so, I
> think you should be prepared to do a bit of debugging and filing of
> bugs.
>
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ok, thanks Todd.  I will rollup my sleaves and try this out!

Dan




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