Bug 1337984

Summary: BackupPC expects /var/run/BackupPC to exist which doesn't after a reboot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Ollie Armstrong <ollie>
Component: BackupPCAssignee: Benjamin Lefoul <lef>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ollie Armstrong 2016-05-20 15:34:54 UTC 
Description of problem:
/var/run is a symlink to /run, which is mounted as tmpfs on RHEL 7. This means that /var/run/BackupPC (which is created when installing the RPM) is lost after a reboot and BackupPC fails to start.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.3.1-1.el7


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install BackupPC
2. Reboot


Actual results:
systemctl start backuppc fails because /var/run/BackupPC doesn't exist. An error message is logged to /var/log/BackupPC/LOG about being unable to create a socket.


Expected results:
/var/run/BackupPC exists and BackupPC is able to start.


Additional info:
I've added the line

mkdir -p /var/run/BackupPC && chown backuppc:backuppc /var/run/BackupPC

to /etc/rc.d/init.d/backuppc at line number 55 which solves the issue for me. There is probably a better way of doing this.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2016-06-30 07:15:04 UTC 
BackupPC-3.3.1-4.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-8e3110a7ad
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-06-30 22:18:37 UTC 
BackupPC-3.3.1-4.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-8e3110a7ad
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-07-18 18:49:43 UTC 
BackupPC-3.3.1-4.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.