Package: distcc
Version: 3.4+really3.4-9+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The distcc service fails to start and error out with
"distccd[1242226]: ERROR: --nice: invalid numeric value"
My /etc/default/distcc is vanilla from debian.
The error is misleading because changing JOBS="" to JOBS="200" in
/etc/default/distcc fixes distcc service startup
I clue it was JOBS being empty that was at faul tbecause I tried running
the dameon on the cli with the service default argument values and got:
sudo /usr/bin/distccd --daemon --no-detach --allow "127.0.0.1" --listen
"127.0.0.1" --jobs "" --nice "10"
distccd[1110953] (distccd_parse_options) ERROR: --jobs argument must be between
1 and 200
Also NICE="10" in /etc/default/distcc was correct.
I don't know what would be a ccorrect default value for JOBS in
/etc/default/distcc though. I took 200 as I guessed taht if it was left
empty it was because the packager wanted no limit, so max limit seemed
the closest to his intent.
Cheers
Alban
sudo systemctl status distcc
× distcc.service - Distccd A Distributed Compilation Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/distcc.service; enabled; preset:
enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-02-05 10:11:32 CET; 1s
ago
Duration: 42ms
Invocation: cc5b8af38d014fc9ad76c1daeb6c0d9f
Process: 1242219 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c if [ "$ZEROCONF" = "true" ]; then
/usr/bin/distccd --daemon --no-detach --allow $ALLOWEDNETS --zeroconf; el>
Main PID: 1242219 (code=exited, status=101)
Mem peak: 1.8M
CPU: 14ms
févr. 05 10:11:32 hermes systemd[1]: Started distcc.service - Distccd A
Distributed Compilation Server.
févr. 05 10:11:32 hermes distccd[1242226]: ERROR: --nice: invalid numeric value
févr. 05 10:11:32 hermes systemd[1]: distcc.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=101/n/a
févr. 05 10:11:32 hermes systemd[1]: distcc.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500,
'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable-debug'),
(90, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages distcc depends on:
ii adduser 3.137
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.89
ii init-system-helpers 1.68
ii libavahi-client3 0.8-16
ii libavahi-common3 0.8-16
ii libc6 2.40-6
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.21.3-4
ii libpopt0 1.19+dfsg-2
ii netbase 6.4
ii sysvinit-utils 3.13-1
distcc recommends no packages.
Versions of packages distcc suggests:
ii ccache 4.10.2-1+b2
ii dbus 1.16.0-1
pn distcc-pump <none>
pn distccmon-gnome <none>
pn dmucs <none>
-- debconf information:
distcc/daemon-zeroconf: false
distcc/daemon-listen: 127.0.0.1
distcc/daemon-allow: 127.0.0.1
distcc/daemon-nice: 10
distcc/daemon-jobs:
distcc/daemon: false
