When I start distcc (2.11.2-r1) it give an error in the log file siting permissions as the problem. This means runscript always thinks distccd is not running. I can't stop it and if you try to start it, it trys and fails. Perhaps distccd is changing user id to distcc before creating its pid file? Here is a quick ls of the run dir: ls -la /var/run/distccd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Dec 7 11:39 ./ drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 400 Dec 7 12:54 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 7 11:39 .keep Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/distccd start 2. grep your logs for distcc (grep distcc /var/log/everything/current) Actual Results: I truncated dcc_setup_daemon_path because its so long [distccd] (dcc_setup_daemon_path) daemon's PATH is ... [distccd] (dcc_should_be_inetd) stdin is a tty; assuming --daemon mode [distccd] (dcc_listen_by_addr) listening on 0.0.0.0:3632 [distccd] (dcc_standalone_server) 1 CPU online on this server [distccd] (dcc_standalone_server) allowing up to 3 active jobs [distccd] (dcc_save_pid) ERROR: failed to open pid file: /var/run/distccd/distccd.pid: Permission denied [distccd] (dcc_log_daemon_started) preforking daemon started (2.11.2 i686-pc-linux-gnu, built Dec 7 2003 11:39:05) Expected Results: It should have created the distccd.pid file. Also note that in the emerge info section below it thinks distcc is disabled, when it is in fact running. Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 distcc 2.11.2 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3. 1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://sunsite.ualberta. ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech. edu/pub/gentoo http://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss encode foomaticdb gif libg++ mad mikmod spell slang tetex guile gpm pam motif 3dfx 3dnow aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups dga directfb dvd -esd gdbm -gnome gtk gtk2 imap imlib java jikes jpeg kde leim libwww maildir mmx mpeg nas ncurses nls objc oggvorbis opengl pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl smooth sse ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb voodoo3 svga wmf X xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Just thought I'd add that my comment about "emerge info" saying distcc was disabled is not related to whether or not distccd is running, but if portage is set to use it. So this isn't a problem as I had guessed and is unrelated to the permissions bug.
Thank you. I will take a look at this and see what's up.
Not sure how your installation got fubared, but try: chown -R distcc:daemon /var/run/distccd
Does this still cause issues? Did the chown line in comment 3 help?
Yeah this seems to have fixed the issue, not sure how it's permissions got messed up in the first place. The ebuild was ~x86 after all, so perhaps I just installed it at the wrong time.
Seems to work now... Rubber chicken effect, I'm guessing.
