Service settings not working

**satimis** · 10-12-2006

Hi folks,

Gentoo_64
gnome-light

Having encountered following problem

Desktop --> Administration --> Services

Login as root to start "Service settings" windows

Following items displayed on the windows;

Code:

Graphical Login manager (xdm) [checked]
Printer service (cupsd) [not checked]
Remote shell server (sshd) [not checked]

Clicking any empty box [ ] started following Error warning

Code:

The Application "services-admin" has quit unexpectedly.
You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix it.  Or you can restart the application right now.

Restarted Application returned to Login box. Repeating the above steps still popup the "Error" warning window.

Please advise how to fix this problem. TIA

B.R.
satimis

**gruven** · 10-12-2006

Open a shel, and type

Code:

/etc/init.d/sshd restart

and see if it throws an error. You can do the same thing for cupsd (the cups daemon). That will tell you where to look for the error, or if you need to recompile said programs.

**satimis** · 10-13-2006

Hi gruven,

Open a shel, and type

Code:

/etc/init.d/sshd restart

and see if it throws an error.

# /etc/init.d/sshd restart

Code:

 * Starting eth0
 *   Bringing up eth0
 *     dhcp
 *       Running dhcpcd ...
Error, timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response                                                  [ !! ] * ERROR:  cannot start sshd as net.eth0 could not start

Problem remained intact. It killed the broadband connection as well.

# pppoe-status
pppoe-status: Link is attached to ppp0, but ppp0 is down

# ifconfig

Code:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

# pppoe-start

Code:

pppoe-start: There already seems to be a PPPoE connection up (PID 5597)

# kill 5597
# pppoe-start
. Connected!

B.R.
satimis

**gruven** · 10-13-2006

It looks to me like you don't have your startup networking working correctly. That is why sshd isn't starting when you boot up. You need to correct that issue first, or just start sshd manually because the startup init.d script is dependent upon the ethernet (eth0, eth1, etc...) script.

**satimis** · 10-13-2006

Hi gruven,

gnome-light

It looks to me like you don't have your startup networking working correctly.

My broadband connection is working without problem. I still run "pppoe-start" on console to connect. Please advise where and how to check and correct the problem. Tks.

or just start sshd manually because the startup init.d script is dependent upon the ethernet (eth0, eth1, etc...) script.

On running sshd manually, besides killing the broadband connection the problem can't be solved. The Error warning still popup;

Code:

The Application "services-admin" has quit unexpectedly.

You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix it.  Or you can restart the application right now.

B.R.
satimis

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