Bug 35313

Summary:	metalog still being used as logger despite being unmerged
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Sayman <lorien420>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	aben
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrew Sayman 2003-12-07 23:15:14 UTC

I have completely unmerged metalog and emerged sysklogd. I have removed metalog
from the inits and put sysklogd there.  On startup and every time I emerge
something I get this error: 
* Caching service dependencies...
 *  Service 'metalog' already provide 'logger'!;
 *  Not adding service 'sysklogd'...                                      [ ok ]

In addition, when I try to start my cron daemon I see this: 
 /etc/init.d/vcron start
 * Starting metalog...
start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/metalog: No such file or directory
 * Failed to start metalog                                                [ !! ]

 * ERROR:  Problem starting needed services.
 *         "vcron" was not started.

As this makes clear, metalog no longer exists. Why is portage caching a program
that isn't installed as my logger?

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-12-08 06:24:25 UTC

delete the init.d script in /etc/init.d

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-18 07:36:01 UTC

*** Bug 67982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***