After installing the updated fetchmail and rebooting, the following error occurs when starting fetchmail: * Starting fetchmail ... fetchmail: Cannot find absolute path for user's home directory. * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/fetchmail' [ !! ] * ERROR: fetchmail failed to start After investigation, it looks like the specified home directory for user fetchmail ("/var/lib/fetchmail") was not created. After manually adding that folder and assigning it to fetchmail, it starts up correctly. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: Failed to start Expected Results: fetchmail home directory should also be created during install
Sorry for that, in my rush to push a fix in -r2, the new dependency on acct-user/fetchmail (now handling the user) did not make it. Thanks for the report I will push a -r3 ASAP
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=12fb4227c33c6f39f99c838b2c36c6f44c3d7138 commit 12fb4227c33c6f39f99c838b2c36c6f44c3d7138 Author: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-01-05 23:10:01 +0000 Commit: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-01-05 23:10:01 +0000 net-mail/fetchmail: actually add acct-user/fetchmail RDEP Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/704828 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.84, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org> .../fetchmail/{fetchmail-6.4.1-r2.ebuild => fetchmail-6.4.1-r3.ebuild} | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
