rh7.2 starts wine in runlevel 3!
Dan Kegel
dank at kegel.com
Mon Nov 12 00:36:44 CST 2001
Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, James Juran wrote:
> >
> > > Dan Kegel wrote:
> > > >
> > > > installing the wine rpm that comes with red hat 7.2
> > > > works -- unless you switch to runlevel 3! Then the
> > > > wine startup script runs, and fails.
> > > >
> > > > Since wine depends on X, it should only run in
> > > > runlevel 5!
> > >
> > > Since that would be a problem with Red Hat's packaging, it should be
> > > reported at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla .
> >
> > Why is it a problem at all? You can run X at runlevel 3 with any distro
> > I know of, if you want to, and if you know how. (hint: try startx, and
> > if that doesn't work, try xinit).
>
> It's a problem because /sbin/telinit 3 hangs.
> Requiring X at runlevel 3 is a violation of the LSB
> http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.0.0/gLSB/runlevels.html
>
> > Wine will run without X, too, if you
> > can find an app with no GUI, and change "GraphicsDriver" to =
> > "ttydrv" in ~/.wine/config
>
> Yes, I use that sometimes. Perhaps rh's init script for wineserver
> should start wineserver that way at runlevel 3. Or does it make
> sense to run wineserver at all from init?
>
> - Dan
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