I updated to portage v2.0.51.22-r2 last night, didnt upgrade any other packages, this morning i bootup hangs when trying to start courier-imapd-ssl. To get in i had to boot into single user mode remove courier-imapd-ssl from /etc/runlevels/default and now it boots and i can get a command prompt/gdm. These are the services i can boot with, i only had to remove courier-imapd-ssl. domainname famd hald metalog netmount proftpd sshd xdm exim fetchmail local net.eth0 ntp-client squid vixie-cron courier-imapd-ssl needs courier-authlib which was failing to start correctly, i.e. it reports # /etc/init.d/courier-authlib start * Starting courier-authlib: authdaemond ... [ !! ] however when it start it by hand, by filling in the variables in the init script it starts fine. # date Thu Jul 21 15:00:13 EST 2005 bugsville bug1 # start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/authdaemon.pid --exec /usr/bin/env -- - /usr/sbin/courierlogger -pid=/var/run/authdaemon.pid -start /usr/lib/courier/courier-authlib/authdaemond bugsville bug1 # echo $? 0 Corresponding log output is Jul 21 15:00:30 [authdaemond] modules="authpam authuserdb authshadow authcustom", daemons=5 Jul 21 15:00:30 [authdaemond] Installing libauthpam Jul 21 15:00:30 [authdaemond] Installation complete: authpam Jul 21 15:00:30 [authdaemond] Installing libauthuserdb Jul 21 15:00:30 [authdaemond] Installation complete: authuserdb Jul 21 15:00:30 [authdaemond] Installing libauthshadow Jul 21 15:00:30 [authdaemond] Installation complete: authshadow Jul 21 15:00:30 [authdaemond] Installing libauthcustom Jul 21 15:00:30 [authdaemond] Installation complete: authcustom The script does start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile "$pidfile" --exec /usr/bin/env -- - $logger -pid="$pidfile" -start "${AUTHLIB}/${AUTHDAEMOND}" eend $? So i suspect something relating to eend is broken. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Same here: $ /etc/init.d/courier-imapd-ssl start * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting courier-authlib: authdaemond ... [ !! ] * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "courier-imapd-ssl" was not started. When I try to start authdaemond by hand as suggested I get no output and also starting courier-imapd-ssl again gives no output: $ /etc/init.d/courier-imapd-ssl start $ I think this failure to start courier-authlib/authdaemond also prevents me to start apache2? as I have not been able to start that as well. My emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Gentoo Base System version dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-stack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 alsa apache2 apm bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm hardened imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python readline sasl sdl slang spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Which baselayout version are you using?
I'm using sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1.
Im using baselayout 1.12.0_pre1-r1 also, although i did just upgrade it last night, before the problem struck
"I think this failure to start courier-authlib/authdaemond also prevents me to start apache2?" I suspect it may be a bigger problem than that, and the problem could lie in the scripts that startup the servers, like the eend command might be causing the problem, but if so there should be a lot more people with this problem, why just us two ?
I downgraded to sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13 and its fixed it for me. baselayout provides /sbin/runscript which i believe is where this script gets the eend command. I think this has the potention to cause a few problems, so baselayout 1.12.0_pre1-r1 should be blocked.
(In reply to comment #1) > I think this failure to start courier-authlib/authdaemond also prevents me to > start apache2? as I have not been able to start that as well. Please, file a separate bug about Apache, otherwise this is a dupe of Bug 98745.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98745 ***
Well, Im stuck now. I downgraded to sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13, but then /etc/init.d/net.lo and/or net.eth0 failed for some reason and all networked services (incl. ssh) failed to start. I went back to sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre1-r1, but /etc/init.d/net.lo and net.eth0 still fail and i cannot ssh into the box anymore, even though it says the sshd service started succesfully. I also have no console because bootup hangs.
Okay, booted Gentoo install cd, chrooted into my installation and downgraded to sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13, this time noticing the need to create a net.eth0 symlink to net.lo like this: /bin/ls /etc/init.d/net.eth0 | xargs -n1 ln -sfvn net.lo Then booted back into Gentoo and almost everything started working again. Did notice a bunch of dead symlinks and my courier-imapd-ssl now thinks it should authenticate against mysql, but I guess I can sort these things out.
you could have booted into single user mode by adding init 1 to the end of grub's kernel line. I didnt have any network problems, but my net.eth0 and net.lo arent symlinks they are normal files that i copied across ages ago.
