Howdy, I did a KDE update so I switched to boot runlevel and back to default. I noticed that a service didn't start and it was smartd. Not exactly critical but it does monitor my hard drives. When I try to restart it, I get this using the -v option.
root@fireball / # /etc/init.d/smartd start -v * Executing: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /etc/init.d/smartd start * Starting smartd ... * start-stop-daemon: fopen `/run/smartd.pid': No such file or directory * Detaching to start `/usr/sbin/smartd' ... * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/smartd' * Failed to start smartd [ !! ] * ERROR: smartd failed to start root@fireball / # I've tried re-emerging the smartmontools package, I've tried the zap option as well, in case my recent power supply blow up left some cruft behind. I also googled but can't find this problem. It seems tho that the pid file should maybe be in /var instead of /run. I'm not sure if it was moved recently or what. Anyone know how to fix this? Or run into this before? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
