[Initng] How to fix "Error connecting to initng socket"

[Hans Hohenfeld]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:30:06PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> I have used initng on debian for some time.
> I used initng 0.6.7-1 for a long time, because
> that was all I could get packaged for amd64 debian.
> (There are newer packages, but only for i386 it seems.)
> 
> This version has various problems:
> * fails to bring up wlan0, something "ifup wlan0" usually will do
> * sometimes long delays waiting for udev, but I use initng to boot *faster*
> * trouble with X crashing a couple of times during boot, but perhaps
>    that is an X problem?
> * loadkeys always fails. Not a initng problem though.
> * After a handful of "ngc" commands, I get the dreaded "Error connecting
>    to initng socket" and can't shutdown or do anything useful with ngc :-(
> 
> So I finally downloaded the source for initng 0.6.10.2, and compiled it.
> I rebooted after "make install" and now ngc doesn't work at all.
> "Error connecting to initng socket" at the first try - everytime.
> 
> 
> Inability to reboot or bring up additional services makes initng useless
> for me. Is there a known way out of this, or will I have to
> look at other sysv init replacements?  I liked the quick parallel startup,
> of initng, but I also need something that works.
> 
> Helge Hafting
> -- 

Hi,

I got the same problem here since my last system update (gentoo). I'm
using initng-0.6.10.2 and initng-ifiles-0.1.4. I don't know if there is
a "real" fix for that problem but running

kill -HUP 1

before using ngc works for me.

regards

Hans
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