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kde-guidance package

Cannot Remove sysv services: evms, mdam, postfix

Bug #14477 reported by Jery Wang
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kde-guidance (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Sebastian Kügler

Bug Description

Using ksysv, I have removed evms, mdam, postfix services. I double check inside
/etc/rc?.d for Sxx... and Kxx... and they are not there, but during boot up I
still see the services are started. The funny thing is , I don't see postfix
start but I see postfix stop when shutting down (which of course fail).

I also use sysvconfig before using ksysv, but no success.

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Jery Wang (jery-wang2002) wrote :

(In reply to comment #0)
> Using ksysv, I have removed evms, mdam, postfix services. I double check inside
> /etc/rc?.d for Sxx... and Kxx... and they are not there, but during boot up I
> still see the services are started. The funny thing is , I don't see postfix
> start but I see postfix stop when shutting down (which of course fail).
>
> I also use sysvconfig before using ksysv, but no success.

I think ksysv is doing its job already since I am no longer able to find the
deleted services in /etc/rc?.d. But the problem is somewhere that even when the
services S??... and K??.. have deleted, the services are still running/started
and killed/stopped.

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Tom Fernandes (tom-fernandes) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Using ksysv, I have removed evms, mdam, postfix services. I double check inside
> > /etc/rc?.d for Sxx... and Kxx... and they are not there, but during boot up I
> > still see the services are started.

ksysv doesn is not capable of removing links to the initscripts from /etc/rcS.d.
Like this some services (e.g. evms) will be still started during boot-up.

> > The funny thing is , I don't see postfix
> > start but I see postfix stop when shutting down (which of course fail).
> >

Did you remove postfix from all the runlevels? Do

find /etc/rc* | grep postfix

to find out.

> > I also use sysvconfig before using ksysv, but no success.

You can in general just move or remove the links manually - then the system
won't start these services. Use a similar command like the above to find
the links to the service you want to remove.

>
> I think ksysv is doing its job already since I am no longer able to find the
> deleted services in /etc/rc?.d. But the problem is somewhere that even when the
> services S??... and K??.. have deleted, the services are still running/started
> and killed/stopped.
>

see above

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Rocco Stanzione (trappist) wrote :

Confirmed on dapper. Tom, that's a fair workaround, but this is definitely a bug. I'm not certain it's a kdeadmin bug, though, because I was unable to disable these services with bum, too.

Changed in kdeadmin:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

Dapper uses kde-guidance for managing services, therefore reassigning to that package.

Frode M. Døving (frode)
Changed in kde-guidance:
assignee: jr → kubuntu-team
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Sebastian Kügler (sebasje) wrote :

Can you confirm that this bug still exists in the current version?

Changed in kde-guidance:
assignee: kubuntu-team → sebas-kde
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

No response for several months. Feel free to reopen if you can reproduce this with 6.06 or Edgy.

Changed in kde-guidance:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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