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.
Please attach the log with the exact error messages. Were you root when you ran service start? Do you have SELinux enabled?
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'.
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'
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.
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.)
This issue seems to be fixed in monotone-server-0.30-1.fc5.