Bug 1186674

Summary: Failed to create directory /var/lock/ejabberdctl: No such file or directory
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vladislav Grigoryev <vg.aetera>
Component: ejabberdAssignee: Randy Barlow <randy>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Vladislav Grigoryev 2015-01-28 09:57:10 UTC
Description of problem:
> # journalctl -lu systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service -b
> systemd-tmpfiles[1493]: Failed to create directory /var/lock/ejabberdctl: No such file or directory
> systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.
> systemd[1]: Unit systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service entered failed state.
> systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service failed.

Incorrect path in "/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ejabberd.conf".
Use "/run/lock/ejabberdctl" instead of "/var/lock/ejabberdctl".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ejabberd-14.07-6.fc21.x86_64
systemd-216-17.fc21.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Actual results:
# cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ejabberd.conf
d /var/lock/ejabberdctl 0750 ejabberd ejabberd

Expected results:
# cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ejabberd.conf
d /run/lock/ejabberdctl 0750 ejabberd ejabberd

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Comment 2 Vladislav Grigoryev 2016-06-26 12:34:32 UTC
Also affects ejabberd-16.01-5.fc24.x86_64 on Fedora 24.

Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2016-07-26 04:33:09 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

Comment 4 Randy Barlow 2017-01-01 21:35:29 UTC
Hello ArcFi!

I see that /var/lock/ejabberdctl is still used in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ejabberd.conf, but I do not see errors listed in the journal about it in Fedora 25. Does that mean this is no longer a problem (maybe something in Fedora 25 made it OK to reference /var/lock again)?

Comment 5 Randy Barlow 2017-02-20 03:48:34 UTC
It looks like /var/lock is a symlink to /run/lock, so I bet it will work either way. However, switching the file to say /run instead of /var is very easy so I will make the change.

Comment 6 Randy Barlow 2017-02-20 03:58:24 UTC
It appears that the /run/lock/ejabberd folder is not used on my Rawhide ejabberd server. I do not have an F24 or F25 ejabberd installation to test with, so I will not assume it isn't needed there either. I think this is what I will do:

Rawhide: Stop shipping /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ejabberd.conf
F24/25:  s/var/run/ in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ejabberd.conf just in case it is needed.

Comment 7 Randy Barlow 2017-02-20 14:27:49 UTC
On second, thought, I believe I will only fix this on Rawhide since it didn't seem to cause any issues on F25 as I noted in comment 4 and since I don't have an ejabberd installation to test with for F24.