On 05 févr. 2025 10:19, Alban Browaeys <pra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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:
[...] > -- 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 distcc configuration is managed by debconf. You must reconfigure this package with sudo dpkg-reconfigure distcc I'll upload a new package with 10 as daemon-jobs default. I added comments in /etc/default/distcc to use dpkg-reconfigure to configure distcc Christian
