Bug 257583 – media-sound/squeezecenter-7.2.1 fails to start from init script

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ben Weiner 2009-02-04 11:23:22 UTC]

I couldn't start squeezecenter after upgrading to 7.2.1. Error: "/usr/bin/perl already running".

This fixed it:
-            --start --exec /usr/bin/perl  /usr/sbin/${scname} --chuid ${scuser} \
+            --start --exec /usr/sbin/${scname} --chuid ${scuser} \

this is the version header in the file:
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/squeezecenter/files/squeezecenter.init.d,v 1.2 2008/11/11 14:03:15 lavajoe Exp $



Hope this is helpful.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
sudo /etc/init.d/squeezecenter start




My platform: 2.6.25-gentoo-r6

[Comment 1 Stuart Hickinbottom 2009-02-05 08:09:00 UTC]

I think this has already been addressed in later versions of the ebuild (from 7.3.0 onwards, I think), through the addition of the following to the start-stop-daemon:

--startas /usr/sbin/${scname} --pidfile ${pidfile} --chuid ${scuser}

From memory I think the key was the --startas parameter.

Could you try that and verify whether that also fixes it for you? If you need to stay with SqueezeCenter 7.2.1 for other reasons then I think you've already fixed it by effectively using the init.d script from the later ebuild anyway.

[Comment 2 Ben Weiner 2009-02-26 20:29:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)

> Could you try that and verify whether that also fixes it for you?

Thanks, yes, perfect.

[Comment 3 Stuart Hickinbottom 2009-02-27 08:05:46 UTC]

Many thanks; on that basis I'll mark this as verified and closed.

[Comment 4 Stuart Hickinbottom 2009-02-27 08:06:10 UTC]

Closing.