Le mercredi 05 février 2025 à 11:14 +0100, Christian Marillat a écrit : > 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
That was fast, thanks! Maybe a note in the package NEWS.Debian is more common than a comment in the /etc/default file? Or maybe both. Cheers, Alban
