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Enable a linux service to show popup window

I developed an IP messenger using C language and I wish to share some of it’s implementation details to make completely understand my problem. Used GTK+-2.0 library for showing GUI windows. It has a listening socket and whenever a new connection arrives then it will create a new process to serve the con…

Debian Startup Script Will Not Start

I was creating a startup BASH script, when I was given an error similar to: So I went and put in some LSB tags, but it still does not start on startup. The script works perfectly if I start it manually It is a very simple script that is intended to startup a PERL script in the same folder (/etc/init.d/fcgiwra…

Failed to execute /init

I am trying to build a basic root filesystem using Buildroot, for an embedded system (the Banana PI D1). I am using a kernel from an SDK supplied by the SoC vendor. From this repo I am using only the kernel, found in src/kernel. There’s nothing remarkable about the Buildroot configuration. It builds wit…

mount fails from spawned process

I want to start a process that uses a USB hard drive once it gets inserted. Since UDEV rules specifically mentions not to run long-time processes from RUN command, I send a FIFO message to my service which then opens the relevant process. So the flow goes like this: UDEV > runs action process > sends FI…