[ 2108.388910] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect. [ 2108.388931] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running? Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.12.11 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.10.0-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.10.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3740QM_CPU_@_2.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 24627356 total, 21604372 free KiB Swap: 25081852 total, 25081852 free Timestamp of tree: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5, 3.2.5-r1, 3.3.2-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.13.4, 1.14 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r5::gnome sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo nikai mgorny poly-c luman qt Techwolf gamerlay scarabeus science mva emacs flameeyes-overlay mpd wirelay gnome ruby alice lokal ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=corei7 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
please see bug #332633 /var/run should be a symbol link to /run.
I also still hit this bug
Well, It turned out, that there is a demon which should be started in advance: # systemctl start bumblebeed pls ~ # systemctl status bumblebeed bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; disabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2014-01-24 14:54:30 CET; 7s ago Main PID: 1191 (bumblebeed) CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service └─1191 /usr/sbin/bumblebeed Jan 24 14:54:30 pls systemd[1]: Started Bumblebee C Daemon. Jan 24 14:54:30 pls bumblebeed[1191]: [ 1148.880763] [INFO]/usr/sbin/bumble...ed Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. and this fixes everything for me.