[SOLVED] Running Two Commands at Boot

I've tried adding to the Startup Manager in Gnome and since that didn't work, I tried adding to rc.local to no avail. The only way I can run these scripts is manually through the terminal. The commands are to enable wireless and compiz:
wireless.sh
sudo wicd -foe
/usr/bin/wicd-client
compiz.sh
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace ccp & emerald --replace &
Here's what I put in rc.local
/etc/rc.local
#!/bin/bash
# /etc/rc.local: Local multi-user startup script.
sh ~/Scripts/wireless.sh
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace ccp & emerald --replace &
Last edited by vahnx (2010-08-31 05:30:34)

They didn't work in rc.local since that loads before you log in (I think right after it finishes loading all the daemons). You'll need to run the full path (not using ~). Also, that won't help you with running GUI apps (like compiz, or the wicd tray icon). Also, if your sudo asks for a password that's probably why it doesn't work from Gnome startup (not sure about the compiz one, maybe try putting env before the command like "env LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace ccp && emerald --replace" And oh yeah, to run another command it's "&&", not "&" (you can also use a
Last edited by doorknob60 (2010-08-31 05:21:31)

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enduser wrote:I've successfully installed arch on my mid-2012 (5,1) 11" Macbook Air, and now I'm trying to get an entry in apple's boot menu (the one that shows when you hold 'option' when starting the computer). From the author of rEFInd's install instructions (http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#osx) it sounds like I can just add some files to `/dev/sda1` (a vfat directory that contains the stuff needed to boot macos), and then run apple's `bless` command and we're good to go.
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1. Do I even need a bootloader on a pure GPT/UEFI system?
Yes, you do need a boot loader. It's important to distinguish between a boot loader and a boot manager, though. The former is a program that loads a kernel, and perhaps associated data, into memory and transfers control to the kernel. A boot manager presents a user interface that enables you to select which OS (or which boot loader) to launch. A boot manager is not strictly necessary, and Apple's EFI implementation includes its own simple boot manager, which is what you've been unsuccessful in configuring.
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Many people make do with the firmware's own boot manager, but this can be rather inflexible. I'm not even sure if Apple's boot manager can handle passing options to Linux kernels' EFI stub loaders. This ability is not absolutely required, but without it you must compile your options into your kernel at compile time, which greatly reduces flexibility since you can't modify the options on a per-boot basis -- say, to boot into single-user mode if this is required.
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3. Will `efibootmgr` brick my mac? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UE … FI_systems says it will, but I think the `grub-install` command uses `efibootmgr`, so should I not try grub on here (this package: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core … fi-x86_64/ ).
There were reports of efibootmgr damaging Mac firmware several months ago (I believe over a year ago). Since then I've seen claims that this problem has been fixed with recent kernels (3.0 and later, IIRC), but I've seen no substantiation one way or the other. Overall, I recommend caution....
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When working with state machines, it is important not only to define the states, but also the logical stepping from one state to the next, or alternatives based on conditions. It could be flowchard, but sometimes people call them state charts.
Right now your latest posting has goes to "Write to Motor" event though and will wait there forever because there is nothing in the queue to write out through the VISA port.
Let's assume your first state would happen to be Enqueue Tension (in order to get something in the queue), you will actually queue up all your tension commands at once with the For loop. Then i will be 1 less than the size of the array it always will be because for an array size n, i will go from 0 to n-1 on each iteration. So your false case will run and you will go to "Write to Motor". Write to Motor will run and dequeue the first command then go to Waiting for Response. Waiting for response will iterate through the while loop until 66 or 67 comes back. I assume only 66 will come back for tension since you have yet to write a torsion command. Once that comes back, it will go to Enqueue Tension again and insert a whole other series of commands. Then go back to write Motor and will take out the 2nd queue element from the first set of commands your wrote. It will stay in a Tension mode and the Queue will grow endlessly putting in a whole new series for each element that you dequeue.
A state machine is the way to go, but I can't really sketch one out for you because I'm not sure exactly how your applications is supposed to work. If a tension and torsion command are paired together, perhaps you should just queue them together and write them out at once. But the key thing is to sketch out on paper your application and flowchart exactly how the program should progress from step to step.
PS: One other thing, make sure you wire the queue reference wire through all states.

Invalid command in boot strap mode

Hi All,
I am trying to install peoplesoft HRMS 9.1 with PT 8.51.
Firstly I encountered problems running grant.sql ,it showed that PSSTATUS, PSOPRDEFN, PSACCESSPRFL TABLE OR VIEW does not exist.(So i tried following "Using Data Mover, You can login in to the SYSTEM schema and EXPORT those tables (Using the 'EXPORT <RECORD>' instead of 'EXPORT *'). Then using Data Mover again, login to the SYSADM schema and IMPORT the data. NOTE: You will need two DMS scripts, one to export and one to import, as well as making sure you're using the right USER/PW combination" solution).
Secondly I can login to DATA MOVER using three combination of id's and psswds i.e system/oracle(original bootstrap mode id's) and PS/PS, SYSADM/SYSADM but the last two combinations also shows as bootstrap mode inside datamover.
Lastly i triesd to import the three tables from one schema to other by logging in to system/oracle as all three tables are present under this schema but when i run,
set log C:\REF0001_EXPORT.log;
set output C:\REF0001.dat;
export PSSTATUS;
It shows the below error in logs,
Invalid command in boot strap mode
Ended: Tue Jun 14 00:37:12 2011
Unsuccessful completion
Pls help!

Thanks Nicolas,
So now what do you advise me to do...Do i need to start a fresh from scratch??..I beleive half of the tables present r under SYSADM and rest half under SYSTEM..So is there anything which i can do to import those??

[SOLVED] After latest upgrad. Boots to grub prompt

Hi,
I just upgraded my Thinkpad T61 following
https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/
After completeing the upgrade I got an error "Unable to start shell:/bin/bash" in Terminator. I commented out /dev/pts in /etc/fstab following
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169076
the problem did not go away. I decided to reboot After which the computer boots only to a grub prompt.
I'm posting this after booting with a linuxmint USB stick so Ihave access to the / partition on the laptop.
I've been on systemd for a while now. However I now suspect that I was not fully migrated to systemd. I did do a pacman -R initscripts during the latest upgrade.
Does anybody know how I can recover from this?
need all the help I can get on this one!
Last edited by emk (2013-09-02 03:22:05)

Trilby, you are correct the empty /boot was because I neglected to mount the /boot partition. My mistake.
2. I did have errors as per https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/ i.e the upgrade failed because /bin /sbin were still in the filesystem. I followed the steps in the link and found some files that were holding things up.
I removed the following files
pacman -R gen-init-cpio wlan-ng26-utils consolekit dcron hpoj initscripts tcp_wrappers
I boot via systemd though I suspect now I was not fully migrated.
3. Output of ls on boot partition:
mint e3beb7a9-4c88-4688-8a2d-a00946489a3f # ls -l
total 21258
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 2 00:22 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14869898 Sep 2 00:25 initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3010076 Sep 2 00:25 initramfs-linux.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 21 2011 kernel26-fallback.img -> initramfs-linux-fallback.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Aug 21 2011 kernel26.img -> initramfs-linux.img
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 May 11 2010 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 2 00:28 syslinux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 21 2011 vmlinuz26 -> vmlinuz-linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3783360 Aug 30 09:33 vmlinuz-linux
mint e3beb7a9-4c88-4688-8a2d-a00946489a3f #
4. You are probably right. I have both grub 0.97 and grub 2 in the pacman pkg cache
5. I did follow the steps except that trying to close a terminal once the bash error croped up led to my being logged out before I could run the last two commands 'pacman -S bash and Pacman -Su'
Thanks Trilby. I feel like my Linux chops are evaporating the older I get :0

[SOLVED] Running Two Commands at Boot

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