Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: smartd failed to start. /run/smartd.pid': No such file or directory

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 09:52:52 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Nov  2 09:38:28 fireball smartd[20975]: Unable to register ATA device >> /dev/sdf [SAT] at line 91 of file /etc/smartd.conf >> Nov  2 09:38:28 fireball smartd[20975]: Unable to register device >> /dev/sdf [SAT] (no

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: smartd failed to start. /run/smartd.pid': No such file or directory

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 09:52:52 -0600, Dale wrote: > Nov  2 09:38:28 fireball smartd[20975]: Unable to register ATA device > /dev/sdf [SAT] at line 91 of file /etc/smartd.conf > Nov  2 09:38:28 fireball smartd[20975]: Unable to register device > /dev/sdf [SAT] (no Directive -d removable). Exiting.

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: smartd failed to start. /run/smartd.pid': No such file or directory

Michael wrote: > On Monday, 2 November 2020 05:08:14 GMT Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I did a KDE update so I switched to boot runlevel and back to default. >> I noticed that a service didn't start and it was smartd. Not exactly >> critical but it does monitor my hard drives. When I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: smartd failed to start. /run/smartd.pid': No such file or directory

On Monday, 2 November 2020 05:08:14 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I did a KDE update so I switched to boot runlevel and back to default. > I noticed that a service didn't start and it was smartd. Not exactly > critical but it does monitor my hard drives. When I try to restart it, > I get this

[gentoo-user] ERROR: smartd failed to start. /run/smartd.pid': No such file or directory

Howdy, I did a KDE update so I switched to boot runlevel and back to default.  I noticed that a service didn't start and it was smartd.  Not exactly critical but it does monitor my hard drives.  When I try to restart it, I get this using the -v option. root@fireball / # /etc/init.d/smartd start