topic title: MySQL / TOR messages - what are they?
Posts: 53
roland
Joined: 27 Jun 2015
#1
Hello again,

Can anyone tell me why I am getting the following diagnostics while booting? This box is an Asus mb, 3gb ram, 500gb HD, AMD64 bit cpu, installed with Luddite 64bit AND Luddite 32bit, which I did to see if they behaved differently. Both versions or 13.2 work as expected and give no problems apart from these messages while booting.

[FAIL] checking if TOR configuration is valid . . . . . failed!
[notice] . . . . .
[notice] . . . . .
[notice] . . . . .
[notice] . . . . .
[warn] . . . . . .
[warn] . . . . . .
[err] . . . . . . .
[ok] Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server : sshd
[ok] Starting MySQL database server mysqldinstall invalid user 'mysql'
[ok] Starting Network connection manager : wicd
[FAIL] startpar service(s) returned failure : mysql tor . . . . failed!

Are these bootup and shutdown messages written to a file anywhere? I have looked for them many times and not found them but feel they will be somewhere, or there will be a way of having them written for later inspection. Typing them in as above is hard work as is capturing them from the screen.

Best wishes

Roland
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
Might poke around in

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harry@biker:~
$ su
Password: 
root@biker:/home/harry# cd /var
root@biker:/var# ls
backups  cache    games  lib  local  lock  log  mail  opt  run  spool  tmp
root@biker:/var# cd log
root@biker:/var/log# ls
alternatives.log  debug.1      hp           partimage     user.log.1
apt          dmesg          kern.log     pm-powersave.log  wicd
auth.log      dmesg.0      kern.log.1   samba         Xorg.0.log
auth.log.1      dmesg.1.gz      lastlog      slim.log         Xorg.0.log.old
bittorrent      dmesg.2.gz      mail.info    slim.log.1     Xorg.1.log
ConsoleKit      dmesg.3.gz      mail.info.1  smxi.log         Xorg.1.log.old
cups          dmesg.4.gz      mail.log     syslog
daemon.log      dpkg.log      mail.log.1   syslog.1
daemon.log.1      fontconfig.log  messages     trim.log
debug          fsck          messages.1   user.log
root@biker:/var/log#
but mine is showing from 32 bit AntiX 15. Not 13.2.

Edit:
[FAIL] startpar service(s) returned failure : mysql tor . . . . failed!
That was usually a fatal error message for me on my AntiX 11 and Antix 13.2 installs.
startpar messages are ugly, to be feared, error messages. At least in my case.

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Posts: 53
roland
Joined: 27 Jun 2015
#3
Yes I did poke around /var in all the folders, also everywhere else such as /etc, everywhere above / in fact, to no avail.

Could these diagnostics relate to some application or tool I installed after the Luddite setup? I later installed a few bits and pieces that I thought I would use but not everything available.

I'm sure these messages didn't appear after the first install of Luddite. I should keep better records and notes.

Best wishes and thanks,

Roland
Posts: 2,238
dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#4
did you install tor? suspect removing tor would resolve the issue.
Posts: 53
roland
Joined: 27 Jun 2015
#5
Curiously these Tor diagnostics don't appear in the bootup script messages, but in the shutdown script messages, I should have said that at first. There is no reference to MySQL or Tor at bootup. But I will look for Tor and see if I can remove it. Thanks for the suggestion. Best wishes, Roland