[buildd-tools-devel] buildd fails to start

[peter green]

I'm running a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm trying to setup 
a new autobuilding system for raspbian jessie. The autobuilder i'm 
setting up is a boundary devices nitrogen6x with debian wheezy armhf as 
the "outer OS" and raspbian jessie in the build chroot.

I'm trying to use the packaged version of buildd from wheezy, 
unfortunately it silently fails to start.

Trying to start it under strace gave the following near the end.

stat64("'/etc/buildd/buildd.conf'", 0xc210d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory)
stat64("'/home/buildd/.builddrc'", 0xc210d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file 
or directory)
open("/home/buildd/daemon.log", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 
0640) = 3
_llseek(3, 0, [1847], SEEK_END)         = 0

Which seems very strange to me, where could those extra quotes possiblly 
be coming from?