Bug 469622

Summary:	sys-libs/glibc-2.17 - /etc/init.d/nscd : start-stop-daemon: unrecognized option '--foreground'
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Volker Hemmann <volkerarmin>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Volker Hemmann 2013-05-12 21:31:07 UTC

/etc/init.d/nscd start
 * Starting Name Service Cache Daemon ...
mkdir: cannot create directory '': No such file or directory
start-stop-daemon: unrecognized option '--foreground'
Usage: start-stop-daemon [options]

oh yeah... and foreground is still in there.

openrc is 0.11.8

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-05-13 15:30:31 UTC

my guess is you're doing something dumb like linking /bin/sh to busybox

Comment 2 Volker Hemmann 2013-05-13 17:55:33 UTC

ls -lh /bin/sh 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 13. Mär 20:54 /bin/sh -> bash

Comment 3 Volker Hemmann 2013-05-13 21:21:01 UTC

I don't know what it was - I rebuilt glibc and now it works.