Bug 1042358

Summary:	cntlm fails to start: can't create pid file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mike Pittaro <fedora>
Component:	cntlm	Assignee:	Sandro Mani <manisandro>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	19	CC:	lnie, manisandro
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Description Mike Pittaro 2013-12-12 21:52:29 UTC

Description of problem:

After installing cntlm, the service fails to start because it's can't create it's pid file.

Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 systemd[1]: Starting CNTLM HTTP Accelerator For NTLM Secured Proxies Authenticator...
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 cntlm: Starting cntlm version 0.92.3 for LITTLE endian
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 cntlm: Proxy listening on 127.0.0.1:5865
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 cntlm: Workstation name used: anvil2
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 cntlm: Using following NTLM hashes: NTLMv2(1) NT(0) LM(0)
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 cntlm[3172]: Daemon ready
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 systemd[1]: Started CNTLM HTTP Accelerator For NTLM Secured Proxies Authenticator.
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 cntlm[3172]: Changing uid:gid to 994:991 - Success
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 cntlm[3172]: Error creating a new PID file
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 systemd[1]: cntlm.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 12 11:26:26 anvil2 systemd[1]: Unit cntlm.service entered failed state.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

cntlm-0.92.3-3.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always fails.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install cntlm
2. systemctl start polipo.service 


Actual results:

service will not start.

Expected results:

service starts.

Additional info:

It appears cntlm will not create the required directory in /run, it has to exist. Workaround is to create the directory manually as root:

# mkdir /run/cntlm
# chown cntlm:cntlm /run/cntlm
# chmod 755 /run/cntlm

Comment 1 Mike Pittaro 2013-12-12 21:58:28 UTC

oops - above repro should read "systemctl start cntlm.service", not polipo.service

Comment 2 Sandro Mani 2013-12-12 22:05:17 UTC

oops - above repro should read "systemctl start cntlm.service", not polipo.service

Comment 3 Sandro Mani 2013-12-12 22:06:12 UTC

Uhm something went wrong with my comment. Anyway, the spec file was missing %dir /run/cntlm. Fixed packages under way.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-12-12 22:15:18 UTC

cntlm-0.92.3-4.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cntlm-0.92.3-4.fc20

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-12-12 22:16:45 UTC

cntlm-0.92.3-4.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cntlm-0.92.3-4.fc19

Comment 6 Mike Pittaro 2013-12-12 23:43:30 UTC

Tried the cntlm-0.92.3-4.fc19 with no luck.  The directory is now created, but it needs to be owned by cntlm:cntlm.  I think cntlm drops privs before creating the pid file.

Comment 7 lnie 2013-12-13 06:28:15 UTC

0.92.3-4.fc20 is the same

Comment 8 Sandro Mani 2013-12-13 07:23:04 UTC

Sorry about that. Should now be fixed. Thanks.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-12-13 07:23:27 UTC

cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc19

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-12-13 07:24:41 UTC

cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc20

Comment 11 lnie 2013-12-13 07:35:37 UTC

0.92.3-5.fc20 works

Comment 12 Mike Pittaro 2013-12-13 15:44:21 UTC

Thanks.   cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc19 works.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2013-12-13 17:55:34 UTC

Package cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc20'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-23335/cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2013-12-22 05:44:58 UTC

cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2013-12-23 03:50:05 UTC

cntlm-0.92.3-5.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.