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Bug 1128259 - nscd systemd unit file looks not properly setting the pidfile
Summary: nscd systemd unit file looks not properly setting the pidfile
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: systemd
Version: 7.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-08-08 17:39 UTC by Mattieu Puel
Modified: 2014-08-11 07:54 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-08-11 07:54:55 UTC
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Description Mattieu Puel 2014-08-08 17:39:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

When activated, nscd is not started properly by systemd.                                                                                                                           
It looks like the configured pidfile in the systemd unit does not match                                                                                                                         
the actual one :                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                
$ grep PID /usr/lib/systemd/system/nscd.service                                                                                                                                                 
PIDFile=/run/nscd/nscd.pid                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                
while the file is written in /var/run/nscd/nscd.pid by the daemon.                                                                                                                              
Systemd is then stuck on his waiting for the pid file creation.     

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nscd-2.17-55

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. systemctl start nscd

Actual results:

systemd[1]: Starting Name Service Cache Daemon...
systemd[1]: PID file /run/nscd/nscd.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
systemd[1]: nscd.service operation timed out. Terminating.
systemd[1]: Failed to start Name Service Cache Daemon.



Expected results:
systemd[1]: Started Name Service Cache Daemon.



Additional info:
Modifying the unit file resolves the issue :
$ sed -i 's@PIDFile=/run/nscd/nscd.pid@PIDFile/var/run/nscd/nscd.pid@'  /usr/lib/systemd/system/nscd.service
Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2014-08-11 07:18:10 UTC 
This is weird, /var/run should be a symlink to /run.
Also you have a typo in your sed expression, there is '=' missing in the second part.

But I have tried nscd on my rhel7 and it simply works out of box.
Comment 3 Mattieu Puel 2014-08-11 07:43:41 UTC 
You are right, the problem is my side with a non-existent symlink. I focused on the content of the package. Sorry for your time.
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