librix (gentoo) runlevel service problems

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Friday 15 December 2006 09:52 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote:
> Yet, when I reboot the system, even though they still show up as being
> in the default runlevel (and are in the /etc/runlevels/default folder),
> the services don't start.  I'm confused!  Any ideas?

I'm not overly familiar with Gentoo and this doesn't sound like a SysV style 
runlevel setup that I'm more used to, but have you watched the machine boot 
for any output these startup scripts might have? Does it appear that they are 
running, but not producing the desired effect (starting the right daemons, 
for example)?

If you can't see that startup, maybe adjust one of the scripts to 
unconditionally just output some debugging info to a file and see if that 
file is there after a reboot.  That will at least tell you the script is 
running, but not accomplishing it's goal.  This will identify if this is a 
problem with runlevels not running the scripts they appear to be configured 
to run or of the scripts not able to accomplish their intended goal.
-N