Bug 1422500

Summary: directory /var/run/fail2ban/ is missing at startup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Aldo Necci <necci>
Component: fail2banAssignee: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel7CC: akiran28, athmanem, jncneo, orion, poil, vonsch
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Fixed In Version: fail2ban-0.9.6-3.el7 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description Aldo Necci 2017-02-15 12:38:26 UTC
Description of problem:
After istallation of Fail2ban, the service doesn't start because:

fail2ban-client: ERROR  There is no directory /var/run/fail2ban to contain the socket file /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock.

It's necessary to create the required directory manually to go on.

Comment 1 Aldo Necci 2017-02-15 12:41:44 UTC
This issue is only for Fail2ban version 0.9.6 on EPEL7

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2017-02-15 17:29:39 UTC
Unfortunately the systemd version in EL7.3 does not automatically detect and create new tmpfiles.d entries.  Running 'systemd-tmpfiles --create' or rebooting will create the directory'.  I'll look into running that in the post install scripts.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2017-02-15 18:56:29 UTC
fail2ban-0.9.6-3.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-79373a2a0e

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2017-02-16 17:19:04 UTC
fail2ban-0.9.6-3.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-2017-79373a2a0e

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2017-02-25 02:50:01 UTC
fail2ban-0.9.6-3.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 poil 2017-06-22 09:43:43 UTC
Hi,

I have fail2ban-0.9.6-3.el7 and I have this problem.

# rpm -qa fail2ban
fail2ban-0.9.6-3.el7.noarch

-- Subject: L'unité (unit) fail2ban.service a commencé à démarrer
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- L'unité (unit) fail2ban.service a commencé à démarrer.
juin 22 11:42:57 xxxxxx fail2ban-client[26924]: ERROR  There is no directory /var/run/fail2ban to contain the socket file /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock.
juin 22 11:42:57 xxxxxx systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255
juin 22 11:42:57 xxxxxx systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service.
-- Subject: L'unité (unit) fail2ban.service a échoué
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel


Best regards,

Comment 7 poil 2017-06-22 09:56:50 UTC
(In reply to poil from comment #6)
> Hi,
> 
> I have fail2ban-0.9.6-3.el7 and I have this problem.
> 
> # rpm -qa fail2ban
> fail2ban-0.9.6-3.el7.noarch
> 
> -- Subject: L'unité (unit) fail2ban.service a commencé à démarrer
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> -- 
> -- L'unité (unit) fail2ban.service a commencé à démarrer.
> juin 22 11:42:57 xxxxxx fail2ban-client[26924]: ERROR  There is no directory
> /var/run/fail2ban to contain the socket file /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock.
> juin 22 11:42:57 xxxxxx systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: control process
> exited, code=exited status=255
> juin 22 11:42:57 xxxxxx systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service.
> -- Subject: L'unité (unit) fail2ban.service a échoué
> -- Defined-By: systemd
> -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> 
> 
> Best regards,

Errata: Not the package, I have the problem on only this server, I'm looking why ...