From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 00:26:29 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 C7074106566B for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:26:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve.bertrand@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBF38FC15 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaeo4 with SMTP id o4so2774339iae.13 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:26:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MU0yiLqi6/H0pCCoXpT9Zq3D/ePe7lKXg6hjhL3VG9A=; b=wb/sR3+qZ4dUWIvbA+Ibc5Np1VJM8j5Rzh3PPHOQosbG5hD1WtIUyXcW+KYEzCuoqf il91D5omm/mG173hz5wh6GS3XHhU6FIXKizMaC0eD3dGWLQRwqRhoQHKF6qppiiyUuAz 8NAPqu70CeUA25Uf0J6wgZRPXM8PQneVsNrag= Received: by 10.50.15.129 with SMTP id x1mr15214813igc.14.1329351989119; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:26:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (dyn-dsl-to-76-75-117-172.nexicom.net. [76.75.117.172]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d15sm8676690ibf.7.2012.02.15.16.26.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:26:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F3C4D30.8020004@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:26:24 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" References: <20120215165738.75518ea9@cox.net> <4F3C3E69.2090801@gmail.com> <20120215181943.1d5ebac0@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20120215181943.1d5ebac0@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 00:26:30 -0000 On 2012.02.15 19:19, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > 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? > 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". > :-) > lol :) I figured you've checked there, but one never knows. I've never heard such of a rogue problem on FBSD before. Do you see anything odd if you run lsof? Won't say what started it, but it may give hints. Also, perhaps you could display to the list what you are starting willingly to see if someone can identify a potential problem. Steve