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Bug 25340

Summary: Proftpd init script fails
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Whit Blauvelt <whit>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Nick Hadaway <grandmasterlinux>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: mholzer
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Description Whit Blauvelt 2003-07-26 14:35:10 UTC
# ./proftpd start 
 * Could not get dependency info for "proftpd"! 
 * Could not get dependency info for "proftpd"! 
 * Starting proftpd...                                                                                            [ ok ] 
free /etc/proftpd # ps -A | grep proftpd 
free /etc/proftpd #  
 
Okay, so it's not running. /etc/init.d has: 
 
depend() { 
        need net 
} 
  
-- so I don't know what the complaint is. This happens whether using the sample proftpd.conf 
or a custom one that's know to have been good on another machine. 
 
This is with ProFTPD Version 1.2.9rc1, emerged today. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge proftpd 
2. cp /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.sample to proftpd.conf 
3. /etc/init.d/proftpd start 
Actual Results:  
 * Could not get dependency info for "proftpd"! 
 * Could not get dependency info for "proftpd"! 
 * Starting proftpd...                                                                                            [ ok ] 
-- but no proftpd running 

Expected Results:  
Normal startup, or meaningful error message somewhere (the logs only repeat the 
dependency info complaint). 

Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 Pentium Pro 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/kde/2/share/config /etc /var/qmail/control /var/bind 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde libg++ mad mikmod 
mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb 
slang readline arts tetex svga tcltk guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd 
imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl cdr -java -gnome mbox -apache2" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=pentiumpro -O2 -pipe" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
Comment 1 Whit Blauvelt 2003-07-26 14:38:15 UTC
Typo corrections: Was quoting the depends section from /etc/init.d/proftpd, and "know to be 
good" should have been "known to be good." 
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-07-26 14:39:36 UTC
it didnt fail, if you notice, it said [ ok ] 
 
run depscan.sh, those are just warnings, not errors 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23614 ***
Comment 3 Whit Blauvelt 2003-07-26 15:00:57 UTC
Well, it failed in terms of it wasn't running. The actual error was an /etc/inetd.conf that didn't 
have the ftp line commented out (can't recall at this point when that file got installed - but 
I've never run ftpd from inetd). Commenting that out and restarting inetd, then zapping and 
restarting proftpd did result in a successful start.  
 
So the failure wasn't related to the warnings. But it was failing, and not throwing a message 
to that effect, claiming [OK] when it wasn't. 
 
Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-07-26 15:11:34 UTC
if you shut down inetd does proftpd work ? 
Comment 5 Nick Hadaway 2003-07-27 14:34:39 UTC
As a note... I re-emerged proftpd yesterday and experienced the...

* Could not get dependency info for "proftpd"! 
* Could not get dependency info for "proftpd"!

This disappears after a depscan.sh is run... after a reboot... etc...

This won't cause the server to stop from running.

Are you still having problems?
Comment 6 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-07-27 14:37:15 UTC
if depscan resolves this issue, mark it as dupe of bug #23614 
Comment 7 Nick Hadaway 2003-07-27 22:24:26 UTC
definately a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23614 ***