acct-user/amule must must set /var/lib/amule as home directory for amule user, otherwise amuled fails to start. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install net-p2p/amule package 2. Start amuled daemon 3. Actual Results: amuled fails and there is no way to start amule as amule user to configure it.
Please share a log of it failing.
~ # /etc/init.d/amuled start * Starting aMule Daemon ... * aMule daemon can't be started! Check logfile: /var/log/amuled.log [ !! ] * ERROR: amuled failed to start /var/log/amuled.log is empty.
~ # HOME=/var/lib/amule/ runuser -u amule amuled 2022-06-05 19:52:47: Initialising aMuleD 2.3.3 compiled with wxBase(GTK2) v3.0.4 and Boost 1.78 !2022-06-05 19:52:47: ERROR: Fatal error. Could not create the configuration directory at '/dev/null/.aMule/'.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cbf72063e1930a75226e41bf8beae61f684b259f commit cbf72063e1930a75226e41bf8beae61f684b259f Author: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-07-09 22:35:33 +0000 Commit: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-07-09 22:36:42 +0000 acct-user/amule: set home directory If not set, amule cannot be started, since it wan't to write into a home directory. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/849872 Signed-off-by: Conrad Kostecki <conikost@gentoo.org> acct-user/amule/{amule-0-r1.ebuild => amule-0-r2.ebuild} | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
