[PKG-IRC-Maintainers] Bug#710283: inspircd: Starting Inspircd fails on writing to PID file

[Tim Gouma]

OK,

You are right, this was wrong and was a result of trying everything I 
could think off to get it running. But even when fixed this did not 
solve the problem.

Because the error message said it couldn't write the PID file, I was 
searching for problems with writing the PID file. Pretty obvious right?

Well it seemed to be something completely irrelevant. Because I also had 
the following line in my config:

<server name="irc-server" description="IRC Server" network="MyNetwork">

As you can see NAME is not an valid Domain-Name, which it should be (but 
didn't know then). And therefore Inspircd throws an error about not 
being able to write the config file.

I suggest to change the severity of this bug to low. Because the server 
starts fine when your config has no problems. But I think it should 
throw an relevant error if the config do has problems.

On 02-06-13 22:29, Guillaume Delacour wrote:
> Problem with "/"                    ^
>
> You've edited your configuration and add a slash before ">", this is why
> inspircd fails to start (reproduced with wheezy chroot). The correct
> (package default) directive might be :
>
>     <pid file="/var/run/inspircd.pid">
>
>