F9: Problem with Services tool

[Dan Thurman]

Kevin Martin wrote:
>
>
> Dan Thurman wrote:
>> Kevin Martin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to remove and reinstall system-conf-services but
>>>>> it does not help.
>>>>>
>>>>> What can I do to fix this?
>>>>>
>>>> Why hasn't anyone responded?  I have been working on trying to 
>>>> figure out this
>>>> tough nut and cannot understand WHY system-config-services is not 
>>>> working!
>>>>
>>>> Can someone please give me a pointer in the right direction, short 
>>>> of re-installing
>>>> F9?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>> Have you tried disabling selinux temporarily?  
>> Yes.
>>> Are you running this as root? 
>> Yes.
>>> And isn't it system-config-services, not system-conf-services? 
>> Yes. My typo error, sorry!
>>> Is /usr/bin/consolehelper correct? 
>> Running this brought up a failed dialog.
>> It says: "Unknown error."
>>> Did you "man system-config-services" (it mentions "hanging" in the 
>>> man page at certain times).
>> I tried this and there is no man page for this!  Do I have to 
>> fix/update/re-init the
>> man pages to get all the manpages to show up?
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>> Much appreciated response!  THANKS!
>> But problem remains....
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>
> if you run system-config-services from a terminal is there any output 
> that might indicate the error that you must be getting?  Or is there 
> anything in the /var/log/messages file that might indicate some problem?
>
> Kevin
>
I did a tail on /var/log/messages, ran system-config-services and there 
is not
a single character written to the log file.

The errors in the logs that I am getting are:

Jul  9 13:39:44 bronze sendmail[8753]: sql_select option missing
Jul  9 13:39:44 bronze sendmail[8753]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism 
available
Jul  9 13:39:44 bronze sendmail[8753]: auxpropfunc error invalid 
parameter supplied

Jul  9 13:39:51 bronze setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing su 
(initrc_su_t) "append" to /var/log/hsqldb.log (var_log_t). For complete 
SELinux messages. run sealert -l d018cbcd-b31c-43e7-95f9-85bf0896ac9b
Jul  9 13:39:51 bronze setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing su 
(initrc_su_t) "execute" to ./xauth (xauth_exec_t). For complete SELinux 
messages. run sealert -l d0baadab-b77a-4342-ba86-a8f54b375c0e

Jul  9 13:39:52 bronze kernel: mono[8900]: segfault at 0 ip 08069d02 sp 
bf8a3e10 error 6 in mono[8047000+1f4000]

Jul  9 13:40:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-9302): Error setting value for 
`/apps/gnome-screensaver/power_management_delay': Can't overwrite 
existing read-only value: Value for 
`/apps/gnome-screensaver/power_management_delay' set in a read-only 
source at the front of your configuration path
Jul  9 13:40:09 bronze gconfd (gdm-9302): Error setting value for 
`/apps/gnome-screensaver/power_management_delay': Can't overwrite 
existing read-only value: Value for 
`/apps/gnome-screensaver/power_management_delay' set in a read-only 
source at the front of your configuration path

Jul  9 13:40:34 bronze nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-fedora: parsing 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ...
Jul  9 13:40:34 bronze nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-fedora:     error: 
Ignoring loopback device config.
Jul  9 13:41:29 bronze console-kit-daemon[7967]: WARNING: Couldn't read 
/proc/9707/environ: Error reading file '/proc/9707/environ': No such process

But I don't see how these errors are related.

Dan