[gentoo-user] Re: supervise-daemon fails to start openrc-user

[ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com>]

Il 01/03/25 18:29, ralfconn ha scritto:
> 
> starting from yesterday's update on one of my systems (RaspberryPi) I 
> get the following when I ssh into it:
> 
> pihole pam_openrc[some_user][4421]: starting session
> pihole pam_openrc[some_user][4421]: 1 sessions
> pihole supervise-daemon[4645]: Supervisor command line: supervise-daemon 
> user.some_user --start /usr/libexec/rc/bin/openrc-user -- some_user
> pihole supervise-daemon[4647]: Child command line: /usr/libexec/rc/bin/ 
> openrc-user some_user
> pihole openrc-user.some_user[4647]: uid 0d, gid 0d, euid 0d, egid 0d.
> pihole supervise-daemon[4646]: /usr/libexec/rc/bin/openrc-user, pid 
> 4647, exited with return code 255
> pihole supervise-daemon[4656]: Child command line: /usr/libexec/rc/bin/ 
> openrc-user some_user
> pihole openrc-user.some_user[4656]: uid 0d, gid 0d, euid 0d, egid 0d.
> (the last three lines repeated over and over, then:)
> pihole supervise-daemon[4646]: respawned "/usr/libexec/rc/bin/openrc- 
> user" too many times, exiting
> 
> I never noticed supervise-daemon (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/ 
> supervise-daemon) before, I suppose it is a new component of OpenRC. 
>  From the above log I understand that pam is trying to start an openrc 
> session (whatever that is) for user some_user but fails. supervise- 
> daemon tries to restart the service several times and finally gives up.
> 
> Any idea why openrc-user is failing? And what is an openrc user session?
> 

In reality it only happened once so a non-issue.