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Bug 558410

Summary: sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14 - Failed to start vixie-cron.service: Unit vixie-cron.service is masked
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Juergen Rose <rose>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: floppym
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Juergen Rose 2015-08-22 09:39:45 UTC
If I try to start vixie-cron, it says that it is masked:

root@lynx2:/usr/local/portage(86)# qlist -Iv vixie-cron
sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14
root@lynx2:/usr/local/portage(87)# systemctl start vixie-cron
Failed to start vixie-cron.service: Unit vixie-cron.service is masked.


Reemerging of vixie-cron did not change anything. 'journalctl -xn' says
-- Logs begin at Fri 2015-05-01 23:48:39 CEST, end at Sat 2015-08-22 11:33:19 CEST. --
Aug 22 11:33:01 lynx2 automount[2168]: st_expire: state 1 path /net
Aug 22 11:33:01 lynx2 automount[2168]: expire_proc: exp_proc = 140117277480704 path /net
Aug 22 11:33:01 lynx2 automount[2168]: expire_proc_indirect: expire /net/caiman/usr/local/portage/distfiles_caiman
Aug 22 11:33:01 lynx2 automount[2168]: expire_proc_indirect: expire /net/caiman/usr
Aug 22 11:33:01 lynx2 automount[2168]: 2 remaining in /net
Aug 22 11:33:01 lynx2 automount[2168]: expire_cleanup: got thid 140117277480704 path /net stat 7
Aug 22 11:33:01 lynx2 automount[2168]: expire_cleanup: sigchld: exp 140117277480704 finished, switching from 2 to 1
Aug 22 11:33:01 lynx2 automount[2168]: st_ready: st_ready(): state = 2 path /net
Aug 22 11:33:19 lynx2 polkitd[2140]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:21262:79084855 (system bus name :1.26 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback],
Aug 22 11:33:19 lynx2 polkitd[2140]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:21262:79084855 (system bus name :1.26, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Auth


Any hint is appreciated.




root@lynx2:/usr/local/portage(95)# emerge --info vixie-cron
Portage 2.2.20.1 (python 2.7.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.21-r1, 4.1.4-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
                         System Settings
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System uname: Linux-4.1.4-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7500_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     3972060 total,   2600348 free
KiB Swap:   12582908 total,  12239840 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:30:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p42
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.0) 2.25.1
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p42::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.22.0::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.10::gentoo, 3.4.3::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.3.1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r3::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.17::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r4::gentoo, 1.10.3-r1::gentoo, 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.12.6::gentoo, 1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.25.1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.9.3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.21-r1::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage_lynx2
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

x11
    location: /var/lib/layman/x11
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0

sage-on-gentoo
    location: /var/lib/layman/sage-on-gentoo
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 1

tlp
    location: /var/lib/layman/tlp
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 2

sunrise
    location: /var/lib/layman/sunrise
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 3

science
    location: /var/lib/layman/science
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 4

x-portage
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 5

g-cpan
    location: /var/lib/cpan
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 6

g-octave
    location: /var/lib/g-octave
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 7

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL Intel-SDP dlj-1.1 skype-eula skype-4.0.0.7-copyright googleearth AdobeFlash-11.x cadsoft Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE MakeMKV-EULA NVIDIA-CUDA Nero-AAC-EULA GIMPS"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="64bit R X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi admin afs alsa amd64 amr ao apache2 apng applet archive armadillo arpack asf aspell assistant atlas audacious audiofile automap automount bash-completion berkdb blas blast bluetooth bluray boost branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi chm cli cmake colord cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx daap db dbi dbm dbus declarative designer devhelp device-mapper dga dia dirac djvu doc dot dri ds2490 ds9097 ds9097u dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dynamicplugin eds egl elf emacs emboss emf encode epiphany evo examples excel exif expat extensions extra extras faac faad fam ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fortran95 fpm fpx ftp fuse g3dvl garmin gcj gd gdal gdbm gdu gedit geoip geolocation geos gfortran gif gimp git glade glamor glib glpk gml gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gnome-print gnuplot gnutls gold gphoto2 gpm grammar graphics graphtft graphviz grass gsl gsm gstreamer gtk gtk3 gudev guile hdaps hddtemp hdf hdf5 hdri html http httpd hvm hwdb iconv icq icu id3tag ide imagemagick imap inotify introspection ipod ipv6 irda ithreads jabber jadetex java jbig jit john jpeg jpeg2k kate kde kdepim kdrive kerberos keymap kpathsea kvm ladspa lame lapack laptop latex lcms ldap lensfun libffi libgda libkms libnotify libsamplerate libsecret lirc live lua lzma lzo mad mail maildir mapnik math matroska media-library mercurial mikmod mkl mmx mmxext mng mod modules mono motif mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mpi-threads mplayer mtp multilib multimedia musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses netcdf netpbm network networking nfs nls nntp nptl nsplugin ntfs ntp numpy obex objc ocaml ocr octave odbc ofa ogdi ogg openexr opengl openmp openvg pam pango pcre pda pdf perl plasma plotutils plugins png podcast policykit portaudio posix postgres postscript ppds preview-latex proj projectm pstricks pulseaudio python python-bindings q32 qemu qhull qt3support qt4 qt5 quicktime raw readline reiserfs reports rle romio rpc rrdcgi rrdtool sage samba sasl schroedinger science sdk sdl seccomp secure-delete semantic-desktop server session shout sip slang slp smart smbclient smp sms sndfile snmp soap sockets sound soup sox speex spell sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion sudo suexec svg svm swig systemd szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex tex4ht texmacs theora thesaurus thinkpad threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk tools tracker truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb utempter v4l v4l2 vaapi vala valgrind vdpau video virt-network virtualbox visio vorbis vpx vtk wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xa xattr xcb xetex xext xft xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xpm xv xvid xvmc yaml youtube zlib zvbi" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_core authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_core authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info lbmethod_byrequests log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif slotmem_shm so socache_shmcb speling status unique_id unixd userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="canon fuji ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3" CURL_SSL="nss" DVB_CARDS="usb-wt220u" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics void" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="cfontz hd44780 mtxorb ncurses X lcd2usb lcdlinux png usblcd SureElec" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en fr ru" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd dlight enterprise ergonomics groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler websvccommon xml" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel displaylink" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

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                        Package Settings
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sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14::gentoo was built with the following:
USE="pam -debug (-selinux)" ABI_X86="64"



Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2015-08-22 16:58:59 UTC
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