Closed Bug 1087900 Opened 10 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Command 'start x11vnc' reports as being started while it failed during init

Categories

(Infrastructure & Operations :: RelOps: Puppet, task)

Product:
Infrastructure & Operations
Component:
RelOps: Puppet
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: whimboo, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1477] ) 

That is something I have seen a couple of times and which is a bit annoying. If x11vnc does not starts-up correctly I would expect to see that something has been failed. But right now everything looks like it is working. We shall print a failure instead when running the x11vnc script:

# start x11vnc 
x11vnc start/running, process 1816

[root@mm-ub-1204-64 ~]# ps -ef | grep x11vnc
root      1905  1750  0 00:42 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto x11vnc

From syslog:

Oct 23 00:42:04 mm-ub-1204-64 kernel: [   23.896916] init: x11vnc main process 
(1816) terminated with status 1
Whiteboard: [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583]
Any idea why it's not starting up correctly?
In this case it's a Ubuntu 12.04 machine, and I wasn't able to find the x11vnc log. Do you know where that is located?
I don't, no.  It looks like it's daemonizing itself, although the difference in pids (1816 -> 1905) suggests it's doing so very slowly, or you have an ongoing forkbomb on your system.  It's possible that the init script is wrong..
Whiteboard: [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583] → [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1460] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583]
Whiteboard: [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1460] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583] → [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1463] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583]
Whiteboard: [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1463] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583] → [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1470] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583]
Whiteboard: [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1470] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583] → [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1471] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583]
Whiteboard: [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1471] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583] → [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1477] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583]
Whiteboard: [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1477] [kanban:engops:https://kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/583] → [kanban:engops:https://mozilla.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/6/1477]
Unfortunately we don't have the cycles to work on this.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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