From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 00:19:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12D6106566C for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:19:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmfepo203.cox.net (eastrmfepo203.cox.net [68.230.241.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992EC8FC14 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo305.cox.net ([68.230.241.237]) by eastrmfepo203.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20120216001950.UTVG18532.eastrmfepo203.cox.net@eastrmimpo305.cox.net>; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:19:50 -0500 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([98.164.84.176]) by eastrmimpo305.cox.net with bizsmtp id aQKo1i00l3oG0Ji02QKpFl; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:19:49 -0500 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020204.4F3C4BA5.015C,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=yxEisznaxFPhQ7pnXeFlOsEjQVLLcI39+RlYOdxZuN8= c=1 sm=1 a=vQzwCyMVRIUA:10 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=qwmwShWo9LG1Fa0ONy89vg==:17 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=YGuVtHK0Wsp4crdVUmkA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=qwmwShWo9LG1Fa0ONy89vg==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q1G0Jm05093235; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:19:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:19:43 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Steve Bertrand Message-ID: <20120215181943.1d5ebac0@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4F3C3E69.2090801@gmail.com> References: <20120215165738.75518ea9@cox.net> <4F3C3E69.2090801@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent gam_server from running? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:19:56 -0000 On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:23:21 -0500 Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2012.02.15 17:57, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which > > desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them > > seem to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU > > hog, and once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > > > > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable > > it. I can't even figure out where exactly it's being started > > from. Whether it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some > > add-on tool somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain > > don't want it! :-) > > > > Any clues, anyone? I'm really worn out from trying to solve this > > one. > > Is there anything in /etc/rc.conf relating to this server? > > Steve Well, naturally, that was the first place I checked, along with probing /usr/local/etc, but no, I don't see any signs of anything anywhere that could be causing this thing to run. Nothing helpful in the package's plist, either. Undoubtedly, one of its REQUIRED_BYs is responsible, but none of them are making it easy to track down. It's really quite maddening. This thing is a persistent little bugger, I tell ya. I've tried manually killing it repeatedly, using various signals, and it just keeps resurrecting itself immediately, sometimes in even higher numbers, like some evil being in a horror movie. Kill one, and two or more spring up in its place. It's *evil*, I tell ya! :-) Well, where there's a will, there's a way. I'll get to the bottom of this eventually. I would just uninstall it, but then it will most likely be automatically reinstalled, too, when I upgrade something that depends on it. As Caiaphas sang in his menacing basso voice in "Jesus Christ Superstar", "We need a more permanent solution to our problem". :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net