Current stable is 4.0-r1, which, when installed with default config file, can't be started : verdi /etc/diamond # tail /var/log/diamond/diamond.log -f -n 100 [2018-09-22 03:23:58,338] [MainThread] Changed UID: 0 () GID: 0 (). [2018-09-22 03:23:58,366] [MainThread] Detaching Process. [2018-09-22 03:24:01,037] [MainThread] Unhandled exception: 'list' object has no attribute 'split' [2018-09-22 03:24:01,038] [MainThread] traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/diamond", line 291, in main server.run() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/diamond/server.py", line 96, in run handlers = handlers.split(',') AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split' If is a know error from upstream: https://github.com/python-diamond/Diamond/issues/49 And there's a two-line patch here: https://github.com/python-diamond/Diamond/pull/47 I confirm applying this patch allows diamond to start on gentoo.
for completeness, does diamond-4.0.515 work for you?
@arches, please stabilise app-admin/diamond-4.0.515, thanks
amd64 stable
x86 stable. Closing.