Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135920
dictd.conf references inexistent dictionaries
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:52 EST
Description of problem: [root@marte etc]# rpm -V dictd [root@marte etc]# cat dictd.conf database web1913 { data "/usr/lib/dict/web1913.dict.dz" index "/usr/lib/dict/web1913.index" } database wn { data "/usr/lib/dict/wn.dict.dz" index "/usr/lib/dict/wn.index" } database gazetteer { data "/usr/lib/dict/gazetteer.dict.dz" index "/usr/lib/dict/gazetteer.index" } database jargon { data "/usr/lib/dict/jargon.dict.dz" index "/usr/lib/dict/jargon.index" } database foldoc { data "/usr/lib/dict/foldoc.dict.dz" index "/usr/lib/dict/foldoc.index" } database elements { data "/usr/lib/dict/elements.dict.dz" index "/usr/lib/dict/elements.index" } database easton { data "/usr/lib/dict/easton.dict.dz" index "/usr/lib/dict/easton.index" } database hitchcock { data "/usr/lib/dict/hitchcock.dict.dz" index "/usr/lib/dict/hitchcock.index" } [root@marte etc]# rpm -qf dictd.conf dictd-1.9.7-4 The dictionaries don't exist (are they included in fedora? if yes, dictd is missing a dependency). Because of these dictd fails to start: # service dictd restart Shutting down dictd: [FAILED] Starting dictd: :E: /usr/lib/dict/web1913.index is not readable (index file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/web1913.dict.dz is not readable (data file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/wn.index is not readable (index file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/wn.dict.dz is not readable (data file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/gazetteer.index is not readable (index file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/gazetteer.dict.dz is not readable (data file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/jargon.index is not readable (index file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/jargon.dict.dz is not readable (data file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/foldoc.index is not readable (index file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/foldoc.dict.dz is not readable (data file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/elements.index is not readable (index file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/elements.dict.dz is not readable (data file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/easton.index is not readable (index file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/easton.dict.dz is not readable (data file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/hitchcock.index is not readable (index file) :E: /usr/lib/dict/hitchcock.dict.dz is not readable (data file) :E: for security, this program will not run as root. :E: if started as root, this program will change to "dictd" or "nobody". :E: currently running as user 99/nobody, group 99/nobody :E: config and db files must be readable by that user dictd (sanity): :E: terminating due to errors (sanity) :E: terminating due to errors [FAILED] I have dictd-dictionaries rpm which has dictd.conf too, referencing it's dictionaries in /usr/share/dict rpm -qi dictd-dictionaries Name : dictd-dictionaries Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.1.0 Vendor: (none) Release : 9 Build Date: Fri 27 Jul 2001 03:03:45 PM EEST Install Date: Fri 15 Oct 2004 10:20:45 PM EEST Build Host: parma.redhat.de Group : Applications/Databases Source RPM: dictd-dictionaries-0.1.0-9.src.rpm Size : 47522951 License: see packages for copyright Signature : (none) Packager : enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de URL : ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/pre Summary : Dictionaries for DICT I think it's correct for dictd to have empty dictd.conf, and dictionaries rpms should add to it.
I've removed the config file from dictd-1.9.7-5 and added some lines to the init-script to write out a somewhat useful message.