latest changes to files/ceph.initd-r1 force ceph's daemons to run under a not existent "ceph" user while previous init script was starting them as root. as consequence if you upgrade or reinstall it won't work anymore because: 1. the "ceph" user doesn't exist 2. even with a "ceph" user the stuff inside /var/lib/ceph still belongs to root afaik, it's starting from "infernalis" (ceph 9.2) that it's required to run the daemons under a "ceph" user, so why was this change pushed without even printing a warning? moreover, as it's required to change the ownership of a ton of files/directory and because backward compatibility, imho it would be wiser to let the user decide under which user to run the daemons adding a parameter in /etc/conf.d/ceph instead to hard code the user inside the init script... than you
The ebuild explictly creates the "ceph" user since at least 9.2.0: user_setup() { enewgroup ceph enewuser ceph -1 -1 /var/lib/ceph ceph } pkg_setup() { python_setup check-reqs_export_vars check-reqs_pkg_setup user_setup } I don't see how ceph-9.2 could have been merged without this user being created.
sorry, i didn't specify i was merging sys-cluster/ceph-0.94.6 which doesn't create any ceph user (and there is no need to) however the /etc/init.d/ceph script tries (and fails) to start the daemons as ceph: [...] start-stop-daemon --start -exec ${command} --user ceph --group ceph -- ${command_args} [...]
Fixed in ceph-0.94.6-r1
