Bug 143624 – baselayout-1.12.4-r2 prevent serial-init-skripts of starting

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Josef Kovacs 2006-08-11 19:20:11 UTC]

After a upgrade to baselyout-1.12.4-r2 i can't start /etc/init.d/courier-imapd nor /etc/init.d/serial. I get no segnificant error message, only the message that the service failed to start. Wow ... and where can i start to looking for the error? 
The messageges: 

platon ~ # /etc/init.d/serial start
 * Service serial starting
 * ERROR:  serial failed to start
platon ~ # /etc/init.d/courier-imapd start
 * Service courier-imapd starting
 * Starting courier-imapd ...                                                           
 * ERROR:  courier-imapd failed to start

The log files say the same. 
By the way, /etc/init.d/courier-authlib starts like expected.

Dear devs, i appreciate your hard work, realy, but it's not funny when a new stable! core ebuild blows up an otherwise stable system. That's not the way it should be. And little more meaningful error messages would be nice ... :-/
Thanks.

My emerge --info:
Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes)
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/   ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rxd.hu http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/gentoo-de"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cjk cli crypt cups curl dbus directfb divx4linux dlloader doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode exif fam flac flash foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal idn imagemagick imap imlib isdnlog jack java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms ldap lesstif libg++ libwww logitech-mouse lzo mad maildir md5sum mikmod ming mmx mng mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer ncurses network nls nocd nptl nsplugin ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sdl session sndfile snmp speex spell spl sqlite ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vim-with-x vorbis wmf wxwindows xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xosd xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_vga video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-12 01:11:45 UTC]

courier-imap is Bug 98745 (and marked WORKSFORME, if it doesn't, go complain there). Don't know what's "serial-init-skripts", reopen with exact ebuild name and version of ebuild that installed the broken script.

Also, this is not a baselayout bug.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-12 01:13:00 UTC]

See above.

[Comment 3 Josef Kovacs 2006-08-12 06:01:44 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> courier-imap is Bug 98745 (and marked WORKSFORME, if it doesn't, go complain
> there). 

Ah, o.k., thanks for the tip. I will complain there. But it was not the courier-imap-ebuild the gone stable, it was baselayout. Till this upgrade everything have worked fine and courier-imap started without complains. So is it not a baselayout bug? 

> Don't know what's "serial-init-skripts", reopen with exact ebuild name
> and version of ebuild that installed the broken script.

I'm going to wear sackcloth and ashes. The /etc/init.d/serial script was a legacy from an unknown ebuild in 2004 to bring the serial interface up. I just kicked the script and the interface still works thanks udev. Sorry for the inconvenience in this case.