acpid fails to start [solved]

uagent · Last edited by uagent on Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

I updated my system on Wednesday, and ever since then, I can't seem to get acpid to daemonize, and I can't get any error messages out of the init.d script (which usually is very helpful in figuring out what's going wrong w/ a daemon). It doesn't print anything to the terminal window, doesn't log in dmesg, /var/log/messages, or /var/log/acpid. The best I could do was to run an strace while trying to run acpid and have that logged. The first time was using the stop-start-daemon command like the init script does, the log of which can be found @ http://uagent.com/acpistart.log. The second time was trying to allow apcid to daemonize itself (the default action if you run /usr/sbin/acpid), the log of which can be found at http://uagent.com/acpimanual.log. Finally, I decided since acpid does seem to run if it's left in the foreground, I ran it for a while in the foreground with strace and logged that, the log of which can be found at http://uagent.com/acpinondaemon.log.

If anyone needs any other info about my laptop, I'll be happy to post, and any hints in the right direction are much appreciated. I tried searching the forum hoping it was something others had seen already, but searching for "acpid fail to start" didn't turn up any results either. :/
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xandris · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 113

Was that log (/usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events) obtained with strace -f?

uagent · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:08 pm Post subject:

No, it wasn't. Score one for a 2GB log file >_< Thanks for the help, now it works fine again.

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xandris · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 113

It does? What happened?

uagent · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:12 am Post subject:

xandris · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 113

Wow, that just made my mouth dry. acpid is extra chatty!