I've got a problem:
A while ago, I installed a piece of software called wii-u-gc-adapter
, and when I run it, I can plug my GameCube controller in to my Linux machine desktop computer to play games. This works great.
I must have taken some advice at some point in time to put somewhere in my computer an instruction to run this process at startup.
I bring this up because when I turn my computer off, it hangs for one minute 30 seconds waiting for this process to end.
When I run ./wii-u-gc-adapter
myself, I then manually kill it. But at some point in installing it, I told my system to run it.
The program is listed in usr/local/bin
, which doesn't surprise me.
Here is the end of my $pstree
├─whoopsie───2*[{whoopsie}]
├─wii-u-gc-adapte───2*[{wii-u-gc-adapte}]
├─wpa_supplicant
└─xdg-permission-───2*[{xdg-permission-}]
In htop
I see the following when I filter for wii:
When I shutdown my computer, I have to wait for one minute 30 seconds, and when I press F2 I see this message:
A stop job is running for Wii U Gamecube Adapter
I'd like to clean up this loose end. I usually document what I do when I modify a file, but I don't think I did here, so I'm having a hard time finding where I made a change that causes this program to run on startup.
[Some progress here – edit 1]
~$ ps j 1045
PPID PID PGID SID TTY TPGID STAT UID TIME COMMAND
1 1045 1045 1045 ? -1 Ssl 0 0:00 /usr/local/bin/wii-u-gc-adapter
So the parent process of 1045 is PPID 1, i.e. it looks like someone told systemd to start this process. I would like to take this process off that list.
[ more progress here]
Found a gamecube.service file by going to /etc and using ag to search for it.
systemd/system/gamecube.service
2:Description=Wii U Gamecube Adapter
8:ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/wii-u-gc-adapter
I'd like to completely remove this service.
[Third edit] I am following this answer: https://superuser.com/a/936976
[Fourth edit] Following the procedure from superuser, after finding that the parent process was indeed systemd with ps j, this problem is now resolved.
Best Answer
Solution:
~$ ps j [PID]
to find the PID of the parent processsystemd
systemd
's list of what to run on start up.