Comment 2 for bug 131321

Just in case it helps with debugging this problem:

distmp3host starts normally after it's installed, whether it's a fresh install, or a reinstall using 'apt-get install --reinstall distmp3'. However, it doesn't start after a reboot, from '/etc/init.d/distmp3 start' or '/etc/init.d/distmp3 restart', or even from 'distmp3host' run directly from an interactive shell.

It looks from this as though something's wrong in the initscript, but the same problem isn't in the package post-install script. I've tried looking at the initscript /etc/init.d/distmp3 and what I think is the post-install script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/distmp3.postinst), but can't figure out the problem. I don't know much about initscripts or shell scripts in general so it's a bit of a mystery to me what's going on.

Just to clarify again, my original bug report was misleading, this doesn't appear to be an i386 issue at all. So far I have observed it on 3 different x86 machines and a PowerPC. Presumably other architectures are also affected.

I don't mind looking into this further as I'm sure it's quite a simple problem, but I need some idea of what to investigate.