start-stop-daemon thinks that spamassassin died on startup, So /etc/init.d/spamd fails. ------------------------------------------------------- * Starting spamd ... * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/spamd died * Failed to start spamd [ !! ] * ERROR: spamd failed to start ------------------------------------------------------- But, doing a "ps -Af |grep spamd" shows that spamassassin is running in background. ------------------------------------------------------- root 21080 1 39 22:56 ? 00:00:01 /usr/sbin/spamd -d -r /var/run/spamd/spamd.pid -m 5 -c -H root 21082 21080 0 22:56 ? 00:00:00 spamd child root 21083 21080 0 22:56 ? 00:00:00 spamd child root 21085 6681 0 22:56 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto spamd ------------------------------------------------------- Most likely a pid dir permission problem similar to this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70124 But, I've tried setting the pid's dir to 777 and same results. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mail-filter/spamassassin-3.2.4 2. /etc/init.d/spamd start
emerge --info? /etc/conf.d/spamd settings?
(In reply to comment #1) > emerge --info? /etc/conf.d/spamd settings? > Oh yeah, about that. So here it goes: Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.24-zen3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-zen3 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 215 @ 1.33GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0_rc6-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18.50.0.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -fweb -pipe -msse3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/supervise /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -fweb -pipe -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="candy distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/custom-kernels /usr/portage/local/layman/hollow /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 clamav cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv imap ipv6 isdnlog ithreads midi mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python qmail qmail-spp readline reflection session smtp spl ssl suhosin symlink tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vhost x86 xml xml2 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
