After emerge app-admin/ulogd 2.0.7 the daemon fails to start: # /etc/init.d/ulogd start * Starting ulogd ... * start-stop-daemon: did not create a valid pid in `/run/ulogd.pid' [ !! ] * ERROR: ulogd failed to start ------------------------------------------------------- emerge --info Portage 2.3.40 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.26-r7, 4.14.61-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.14.61-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Atom-TM-_CPU_C2750_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 16416908 total, 3470388 free KiB Swap: 20971516 total, 20971516 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:00:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: e43243b7477e2bfc597b65c98b04eac1e4e1fda8 sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.3-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.5::gentoo, 3.6.5::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo 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The same issue. Merged: # qlop -l | grep ulog Mon Aug 13 18:51:54 2018 >>> app-admin/ulogd-2.0.7 fails to start.
ulogd-2.0.7 works fine here on amd64. I need more info from you. 1. Did this problem happen with earlier versions of ulogd? 2. Run ulogd as root and see if there are any error messages. 3. Attach your ulogd.conf.
(In reply to Coacher from comment #2) > ulogd-2.0.7 works fine here on amd64. I need more info from you. You are right. The root of issue was in that user missed (or portage silently resets) config to default sample. Default ulogd.conf is non-operable sample. So, I think we should install it in /etc/ulogd.conf.sample or even move configs into /etc/ulogd/ directory. The next possible issue is that ulogd init script don't perform config file validation. It leads to unclear error message.
ulogd ebuild informs users to edit sample ulogd.conf upon installation. Afterwards emerge has CONFIG_PROTECT mechanism to preserve user's config. If user ignores emerge output and/or disabled CONFIG_PROTECT there's nothing we can do.
