Varnishd startup error in mgt_vcc.c

[Jim Baack]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:28:42 +0200, "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" <des at linpro.no>
wrote:
> Jim Baack <jim at thebaacks.com> writes:
>> I am new to Varnish and trying to get it running on FC5.
>>
>> I get this error on 1.1.1 and the current 1.1 branch from SVN.
>>
>> Internal error: cc(1) exit status 0xffffffff
>>
>> My startup command line is
>>
>> /usr/local/sbin/varnishd -a 127.0.0.1:3000 -f /etc/varnish.conf -P
>> /var/run/varnish.pid -u apache -g apache -sfile,/tmp/varnish.cache,1G
>>
>> I did some very basic debugging and the bin.XXX file appears to be
>> successfully generated from the vcl.XXX file. Any idea what the problem
>> might be or what I should try?
> 
> It's hard to tell.  The error message itself is wrong in that the
> return value from pclose(3) is *not* the exit status of the child
> process.  In fact, it is possible for pclose(3) to return -1 (which is
> what you see here) even if the VCL code compiled just fine.
> 
> What happens if you run 'varnishd -C -f /etc/varnish.conf'?
> 
> If that fails as well, can you strace it (making sure to trace child
> processes as well)?
> 
> DES
>

This resolved itself. It was somehow caused by the way I was accessing the
shell I ran 'varnishd...' from. I'm all set. Thanks for the help and sorry
for the noise.

Jim