F9: Problem with Services tool

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:42:15 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:31:36 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> >
> > > Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Somehow, the system-conf-services tool stopped working.
> > > > Starting this brings up the tool, it hangs with a blank list
> > > > and 'No services selected' in a greyed out right panel.
> >
> > > Isn't there anyone that can help me solve this one?  I am really
> > > pulling out my hair over this supposedly *simple* program
> > > and I cannot for the life of me figure out why this sucker hangs!
> >
> > Be somewhat creative. No immediate need to debug the Python code in
> > /usr/sbin/system-config-services, but you could move all service scripts
> > from /etc/init.d to a backup location, install a single script and see
> > whether that changes anything. With binary search you could find out
> > whether any of the scripts causes s-c-s to malfunction. Else, next would
> > be to empty /etc/rc.d/rc?.d (and/or examine it for circular links or
> > similar damage) and see whether that helps. If it doesn't, real debugging
> > might be necessary.
> >
> All of files moved out into a temp area and add one-by-one into the 
> respective
> places?  If so, do I remain in booted state and do a Kill -1 1 or 
> something to
> test this out?  What scares me is that if I reboot at each test, would I 
> be caught
> in a state that I could never log in?
> 
> Please advise how I should go about this?

Don't reboot, don't kill anything, just restart system-config-services
from within a terminal. It's just a quick test whether any service
will show up or if the problem is entirely elsewhere.