Re: [gpsd-users] gpsd always starting in foregound

[Jobs, Steve]

The problem turned out to be systemd.  Yay, now I can jump on the 
bandwagon and rant about how systemd sucks.  Anyways, I would assume 
anyone who is using a beaglebone black with either debian wheezy or 
Jessie would be running into the same problem.  As I am using my BBB as 
a headless server it was simple enough to disable systemd in the 
Uenv.txt config file.  On reboot everything just works!

On 5/27/2014 9:12 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Jobs, Steve <address@hidden>:
> > gpsd is always staring in the foreground (-N) with no additional arguments.
>
> That's a weird one.
>
> I see from your trace log that clone(2) is getting called but setsid()
> is not.  So it looks like what's happening is that gpsd is for some
> reason failing to background itself properly - probably because the
> fork call is erroring out.
>
> First thing to figure out is whether your instance is calling daemon(3)
> from a system library or from the emulation iin the GPSD distribution.
> How are your C skills?