Nov 29
Today I experienced a problem with my VDR linux system I never had in the last years on any linux system. I switched on my system and wondered why I could not connect with ssh. Then I realized that no service was running - no samba, no http, no vdr …
I had to connect the PC to a monitor and start it again to see that every time a service should be started the following message was printed:
Warning: Fake start-stop-daemon called. Doing nothing
It seems like a failed install script changed my start-stop-daemon script and did not rollback the changes. After some search I found that the following command fixes this problem:
apt-get install dpkg --reinstall
Very weird.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! Your suggestion on resolving the ‘Fake start-stop for sshd’ has solved my problem. Thank you, again, for sharing your knowledge.
Kind Regards,
Ed Cox
Sydney, Australia
June 7th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Anyone interested in explaining why this solves the issue?
June 9th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Seems like this happens when an installer temporary disables the services and then the installation process is stopped unexpected (killed, crashed, …)