Bug 432135

Summary: Need better error reporting when stats file can't be accessed
Product: [Retired] 389 Reporter: Nathan Kinder <nkinder>
Component: Directory ServerAssignee: Nathan Kinder <nkinder>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
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Version: 1.1.0CC: benl, jgalipea, nhosoi, rmeggins
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Fixed In Version: 8.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Nathan Kinder 2008-02-09 00:31:32 UTC 
I missed cleaning up an old DS install completely on my system, which caused
some problems with a new install that were hard to track down.  My old install
was configured to run as "nobody", and I forgot to remove the /var/run/dirsrv
directory when I cleaned everything up.

I installed DS again, but this time told it to run as a special "dirsrv" user. 
When the server first attempts to start doing setup, it just exits.  All the
errors log shows is the "starting up" message.

I then tried to start the server from the debugger, and I see this output in my
gdb window:

 Failed to open stats file (/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-test.stats) (error 1).

This message is output to the terminal that you are trying to start DS from, but
I was unable to see it from the installer.  Since we can log to the errors log
at this point, it would be nice to output this message there as well.
Comment 1 Rich Megginson 2008-02-28 04:15:20 UTC 
Or we should just fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428946
Comment 4 Nathan Kinder 2008-12-12 21:14:29 UTC 
Created attachment 326777 [details]
CVS Diffs

Log message to errors log instead of to terminal.
Comment 5 Rich Megginson 2008-12-12 21:22:50 UTC 
Please add the string error message using slapd_system_strerror(err)
Comment 6 Nathan Kinder 2008-12-12 21:38:26 UTC 
Created attachment 326783 [details]
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Added text description of system error.
Comment 7 Nathan Kinder 2008-12-12 23:41:05 UTC 
Checked into ldapserver (HEAD).  Thanks to Rich and Noriko for their reviews!

Checking in ldap/servers/slapd/snmp_collator.c;
/cvs/dirsec/ldapserver/ldap/servers/slapd/snmp_collator.c,v  <--  snmp_collator.c
new revision: 1.19; previous revision: 1.18
done
Comment 8 Jenny Severance 2009-03-17 14:08:13 UTC 
Fix verified RHEL 5 DS 8.1

[17/Mar/2009:10:06:08 -0400] - Red Hat-Directory/8.1.0 B2009.076.813 starting up
[17/Mar/2009:10:06:08 -0400] - Failed to delete old semaphore for stats file (/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-jennyv1.stats). Error 13 (Permission denied).
Comment 9 Chandrasekar Kannan 2009-04-29 23:02:31 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-0455.html