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On Monday, 2 November 2020 05:08:14 GMT Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> I did a KDE update so I switched to boot runlevel and back to default. |
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> I noticed that a service didn't start and it was smartd. Not exactly |
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> critical but it does monitor my hard drives. When I try to restart it, |
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> I get this using the -v option. |
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> root@fireball / # /etc/init.d/smartd start -v |
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> * Executing: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh |
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> /etc/init.d/smartd start |
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> * Starting smartd ... |
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> * start-stop-daemon: fopen `/run/smartd.pid': No such file or directory |
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> * Detaching to start `/usr/sbin/smartd' ... |
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> * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/smartd' |
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> * Failed to start |
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> smartd |
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> [ !! ] |
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> * ERROR: smartd failed to start |
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> root@fireball / # |
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> I've tried re-emerging the smartmontools package, I've tried the zap |
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> option as well, in case my recent power supply blow up left some cruft |
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> behind. I also googled but can't find this problem. It seems tho that |
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> the pid file should maybe be in /var instead of /run. I'm not sure if |
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> it was moved recently or what. |
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> Anyone know how to fix this? Or run into this before? |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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The pid file hasn't moved here on a stable system: |
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$ ls -la /run/smartd.pid |
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-rw------- 1 root root 5 Nov 2 08:22 /run/smartd.pid |
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This is what syslog reveals: |
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... smartd[3669]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=3669. |
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... smartd[3669]: file /run/smartd.pid written containing PID 3669 |
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What do you see in your syslog as you try to start it? |
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