Description of problem: I installed nottings upstart.repo and installed upstart and event-compat-sysv. Of course this removes sysvinit and then the /sbin/pidof binary, which upstart don't provide. In rebooting /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is unhappy as $ grep pidof rc.sysinit nashpid=$(pidof nash 2>/dev/null) pid=$(/sbin/pidof getkey) upstart or another package should provide /sbin/pidof ? Later I saw nash-<something-I-forgot> taking 100% CPU. Another broken thing is my keyboard going from norwegian to english, gconfd related?
Pidof should be provided by the sysvinit-tools package, which must not be getting pulled in by event-compat-sysv (should actually be pulled by initscripts). Rebuilding initscripts and some other packages might cause them to autodetect these deps correctly. For now try yum install sysvinit-tools and see if that fixes it. You keyboard is almost certainly unrelated. Upstart doesn't touch gconfd. Nonetheless keep us posted on it.
I just grabbed /sbin/pidof from old sysvinit and that worked. Something is funky with gconfd, after gnome login I get Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) Another thing: I have mingetty running, ps -ef | grep mingetty root 1976 1 0 22:43 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 root 1978 1 0 22:43 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 1982 1 0 22:43 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 root 1985 1 0 22:43 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 root 1989 1 0 22:43 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 root 1992 1 0 22:43 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 however ctrl-alt-f1 etc dont work.
hmm, the ttys work for me. Upstart is a client of the message bus, but it shouldn't be causing that kind of issue. Did you pull anything else when you updated. On topic: Packages which should now require sysvinit-tools: autofs-5.0.3-5.i386 cpuspeed-1.2.1-5.fc9.i386 dnsmasq-2.41-0.8.fc9.i386 gpm-1.20.1-90.fc9.i386 initscripts-8.63-1.i386 iptables-1.3.8-6.fc9.i386 iptables-ipv6-1.3.8-6.fc9.i386 nfs-utils-1.1.1-4.fc9.i386
(In reply to comment #2) > Something is funky with gconfd, after gnome login I get > > Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) > > Another thing: > > I have mingetty running, ps -ef | grep mingetty > > root 1976 1 0 22:43 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 > root 1978 1 0 22:43 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 > root 1982 1 0 22:43 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 > root 1985 1 0 22:43 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 > root 1989 1 0 22:43 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 > root 1992 1 0 22:43 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 > > however ctrl-alt-f1 etc dont work. These are almost certainly unrelated. CTRL-ALT-F1 not working is a known issue with rawhide X.
OK, thanks notting. GDM seems to be in some strange shape too, related? I tried: /etc/init.d/messagebus stop and X went down! Not so clever to do that, I guess? However my ttys was back after that. I also have pulseaudio and console-policy-kit crashing, however that's not new. All in all, everything is back to normal after adding the sysvinit-tools package. Boot time is about equal, shutdown is faster with upstart.
This was fixed in initscripts-8.63-2/initscripts-8.64-1.