Devuan bug report logs - #768
gmetad does not start

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Package: gmetad; Maintainer for gmetad is (unknown); Source for gmetad is src:ganglia.

Reported by: Michael Stroucken <mxs@cmu.edu>

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:32:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: debian

Found in version 3.7.2-4

Fixed in version 3.7.2-5

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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Subject: bug#768 closed by Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> (Fixed in
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#768: gmetad does not start

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: 768-done@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Fixed in Debian 3.7.2-5
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:29:15 +0000
Version: 3.7.2-5

This was fixed in commit ea9365470c079b69fc1c48173d40217d4eae62af[1], included
in Debian 3.7.2-5.

Closing

Mark

[1]  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ganglia/-/commit/ea9365470c079b69fc1c48173d40217d4eae62af
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From: Michael Stroucken <mxs@cmu.edu>
To: submit@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: gmetad does not start
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:28:00 -0400
Package: gmetad
X-Debbugs-Cc: mxs@cmu.edu
Version: 3.7.2-4
Severity: grave

/etc/init.d/gmetad refers to $GMOND, which is never set. Likely should
be $NAME


-- System Information:
Distributor ID:    Devuan
Description:    Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)
Release:    4
Codename:    chimaera
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages gmetad depends on:
ii  adduser              3.118
ii  init-system-helpers  1.60+devuan1
ii  libapr1              1.7.0-6+deb11u2
ii  libc6                2.31-13+deb11u6
ii  libexpat1            2.2.10-2+deb11u5
ii  libganglia1          3.7.2-4
ii  librrd8              1.7.2-3+b7
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2

gmetad recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gmetad suggests:
pn  ganglia-monitor      <none>
ii  ganglia-webfrontend  3.7.5+debian-3

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