cannot start acpid

didymos · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:37 am Post subject:

The script may not be shutting it down properly. Check the running processes to see if it's still lurking, and look in /tmp for sockets and /var for lock files or pid files.
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tony11235 · Apprentice Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 198

the acpid.socket is in /var/run. I don't see any sockets in /tmp . There is the following process, which I know nothing about and is probably nothing.

didymos · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:53 am Post subject:

That's normal: kacpid. If you've killed acpid, and the socket is still there, then remove the socket, and it should start up again. It should have been removed then recreated when the script was run. Sounds like it didn't remove it, then bitched about it when it found a socket already there.
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tony11235 · Apprentice Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 198

I removed the acpid.socket and tried to start acpid, but it still complains.

sashomasho · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 10

i had similar problem and solve it by starting acpid in boot profile - 'rc-update add acpid boot', i read somewhere that it must be started before dbus and hald...

tony11235 · Apprentice Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 198

I'm not sure how, but somehow that worked.