On Friday 11 July 2008 16:31, Dan Thurman wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > Somehow, the system-conf-services tool stopped working. > > Starting this brings up the tool, it hangs with a blank list > > and 'No services selected' in a greyed out right panel. > > > > I tried to remove and reinstall system-conf-services but > > it does not help. > > > > What can I do to fix this? > > > > Thanks! > > Dan > > Isn't there anyone that can help me solve this one? I am really > pulling out my hair over this supposedly *simple* program > and I cannot for the life of me figure out why this sucker hangs! > > Please tell me what I can do to debug this sucker to understand > WHY it hangs. I have an strace but who wants it? What does > system-config-services require for proper functioning? > > Yes, I have pored over the man pages and it mentions hanging > but *very* limited data. FYI: it worked until I did *something* > (like install many packages) and somehow it broke it. > > Thanks! > Dan Hi Dan. I don't know why the services tool stopped working for you, but /sbin/chkconfig is the CLI tool to stop and start services, and looking in synaptic on my FC2 install under system-config-services, chkconfig is a dep for it, so it looks like system-config-services is just a graphical frontend to chkconfig. What do you get if you su to root on the CLI, and run chkconfig? It should give you the following options. [root@localhost djmons]# /sbin/chkconfig chkconfig version 1.3.9 - Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Red Hat, Inc. This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License. usage: chkconfig --list [name] chkconfig --add <name> chkconfig --del <name> chkconfig [--level <levels>] <name> <on|off|reset>) [root@localhost djmons]# /sbin/chkconfig --list shows the current state of all services It may be worth a look, as chkconfig appears to be the backend to the system-config-services GUI. 2¢ worth of perhaps nothing. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list