This is fresh installation of pgbouncer. # /etc/init.d/pgbouncer start * Starting PgBouncer ... * /run/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.pid: creating file * checkpath: open: No such file or directory [ !! ] 2013-07-26 16:01:39.243 18019 FATAL Cannot open logfile: '/var/log/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.log': No such file or directory * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/pgbouncer' [ !! ] * ERROR: pgbouncer failed to start with debug it looks like this: * Starting PgBouncer ... + prep + '[' -n /run/postgresql ']' + checkpath -o postgres:postgres -m 0775 -d /run/postgresql + checkpath -o pgbouncer:postgres -m 0644 -f /run/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.pid * /run/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.pid: creating file * checkpath: open: No such file or directory + return 1 + eend 1 [ !! ] + start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /run/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.pid --user pgbouncer --exec /usr/bin/pgbouncer -- -q -d /etc/pgbouncer.ini 2013-07-26 15:59:05.447 17737 FATAL Cannot open logfile: '/var/log/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.log': No such file or directory * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/pgbouncer' + eend 1 [ !! ] + exit 1 * ERROR: pgbouncer failed to start It looks the both files (and dirs) for pid and logs won't be created and also start-stop-daemon shouldn't start pgbouncer if checkpath fails. (using eend isn't enough to exit from init script) Reproducible: Always # emerge --info Portage 2.1.12.2 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.5.4, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.5.7-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.5.7-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5440_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 KiB Mem: 4045128 total, 760652 free KiB Swap: 4194300 total, 4194232 free Timestamp of tree: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 05:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4-r2 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="-O" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://backup/gentoo-portage" USE="acl acpi amd64 bash-completion bzip2 caps cli cracklib crypt cxx device-mapper dovecot-sasl fortran glibc-omitfp iconv idn imap mmap mmx mmxext modules mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre perl-geoipupdate readline session slang smp sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4a ssl ssse3 threads threadsafe unicode vim-syntax zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_default authn_file authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache 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 status unique_id usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="access auth_basic fastcgi gzip gzip_static proxy realip rewrite stub_status upstream_ip_hash" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, USE_PYTHON
*pgbouncer-1.5.4-r1 (18 Aug 2013) 18 Aug 2013; Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org> +pgbouncer-1.5.4-r1.ebuild, files/pgbouncer.initd: Fix bugs 478142, 478240, and 477350.
