Bug 198761

Summary:	Monotone-Server doesn't start due to permission problems
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny>
Component:	monotone	Assignee:	Roland McGrath <roland>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Thomas Moschny 2006-07-13 12:06:48 UTC

Description of problem:
The monotone server doesn't start, because it can't create the pid 
file /var/run/monotone-server.pid.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
monotone-server-0.27-1.fc5

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. service start monotone
2. service status monotone
3. less /var/log/monotone
  
Actual results:
Monotone server is not running.
The log tells us that the PID-file couldn't be created.

Expected results:
Monotone server running.

Additional info:
None.

Comment 1 Roland McGrath 2006-07-13 19:33:00 UTC

Please attach the log with the exact error messages.
Were you root when you ran service start?  
Do you have SELinux enabled?

Comment 2 Thomas Moschny 2006-07-13 19:47:33 UTC

No, I don't have SELinux enabled.

The problem is that the mtn binary itself is told to create the pid file via 
the --pid-file option, but is run as user 'monotone'; and /var/run has 755 
permissions.

So one solution could be to have a subdir of /var/run in the package that 
is writeable by user 'monotone'.

Comment 3 Thomas Moschny 2006-07-14 07:02:49 UTC

And yes, I was root when I ran service start.

The log error message is in German (so on a side note, /etc/init.d/monotone 
should probably set LC_ALL=C). The relevant part is this:

monotone-server: Fehler: Konnte PID-Datei '/var/run/monotone-server.pid' nicht 
erstellen

which translates to

monotone-server: Error: Could not create 
pid-file '/var/run/monotone-server.pid'

Comment 4 Roland McGrath 2006-08-03 23:12:19 UTC

This should be fixed in 0.28-2.  Please verify that things are working well for
you once that build makes its way through the system so you can get it.

Comment 5 Thomas Moschny 2006-08-08 09:48:48 UTC

Now, the service can't be restarted, because the 
pid-file "/var/run/monotone/monotone-server.pid" is not removed for "service 
stop". Monotone complains about the pid-file being existent upon 
next "service start" and refuses to start.

(It seems to me that killproc tries to remove /var/run/monotone-server.pid 
instead of the correct pid-file.)

Comment 6 Thomas Moschny 2006-11-03 17:09:26 UTC

This issue seems to be fixed in monotone-server-0.30-1.fc5.