Bugzilla Bug 174343

Run:
/etc/init.d/amavisd start
Result:
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                            
                        [ ok ]
 * Starting amavisd-new ...
 * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/amavisd died                                   
                                                                      [ !! ]
 * ERROR: amavisd failed to start

And that's it. I modified the init script so, on init(), it doesn't use
start-stop-daemon but instead just runs /usr/sbin/amavisd directly.

Not baselayout.

emerge --info please.

irrational ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r1,
2.6.20-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:50:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5
dev-lang/python:     2.5-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17.50.0.14
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.20-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch prelink sandbox
sfperms strict usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=both,-z,relro,--enable-new-dtags,-O1,-z,now,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/webapps-experimental
/usr/portage/local/layman/mythtv-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay
/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi aiglx alsa amd64 animation apache2 artworkextra asf aspnet2
authdaemond avahi avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo
cdda cdparanoia cdr chm cli cracklib crypt cups curl daap dbus dga divx4linux
dlloader dpms dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif fam fame fat fbsplash
ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gaim gd gdbm geoip gif
gimpprint glib glibc-omitfp glitz glut gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer
gstreamer10 gtk gtk2 hal hardenedphp hbci howl howl-compat iconv imagemagick
imap imlib innodb ipv6 isdnlog ivtv java java5 joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit kde
kdehiddenvisibility lcms libfame libg++ libnotify libusb lirc live lm_sensors
lzo mad maildir mdnsresponder-compat midi mjpeg mmap mng mono motif mozilla
mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer musepack mysql mythtv nautilus ncurses network
nls nptl nptlonly ntfs nvidia offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl pam
pango pcre pdf pdflib perl pic pie png pnp ppd ppds pppd prelude pulseaudio
python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime rar readline reflection rtc samba sasl screensaver
sdl session sharedmem shout snmp sox speex spell spl sqlite ssl suspend2 svg
tcpd theora threads tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type-fonts
type1-fonts unicode unzip ups usb v4l v4l2 vcd videos vorbis webdav webservices
wifi wmf wv x264 xanim xcb xine xinerama xml2 xorg xpm xprint xrandr
xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev joystick keyboard mouse"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" LIRC_DEVICES="mceusb2" USERLAND="GNU"
VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

(In reply to comment #0)
> Run:
> /etc/init.d/amavisd start
> Result:
>  * Caching service dependencies ...                                            
>                         [ ok ]
>  * Starting amavisd-new ...
>  * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/amavisd died                                   
>                                                                       [ !! ]
>  * ERROR: amavisd failed to start
> 
> And that's it. I modified the init script so, on init(), it doesn't use
> start-stop-daemon but instead just runs /usr/sbin/amavisd directly.
> 

That's really weird, because I know current initscript works for quite a few
users. Have you checked syslog to see why does the process dies?

No errors in the logs, and ps reveals that amavis is running. And it functions
fine, too. It's just that the rc script doesn't report the right result.

It worked fine under baselayout-1, it's only since I upgraded to baselayout-2
that this problem came up.

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Run:
> > /etc/init.d/amavisd start
> > Result:
> >  * Caching service dependencies ...                                            
> >                         [ ok ]
> >  * Starting amavisd-new ...
> >  * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/amavisd died                                   
> >                                                                       [ !! ]
> >  * ERROR: amavisd failed to start
> > 
> > And that's it. I modified the init script so, on init(), it doesn't use
> > start-stop-daemon but instead just runs /usr/sbin/amavisd directly.
> > 
> 
> That's really weird, because I know current initscript works for quite a few
> users. Have you checked syslog to see why does the process dies?
> 

After consulting Roy regarding baselayout2, I've added "--name amavisd" to
start-stop-daemon call. This should fix it for you. Please sync in few hours
and test.