[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#567948: firebird2.1-super: won't start due to missing /tmp/firebird/run

Hamish Moffatt hamish at debian.org
Mon Feb 1 22:07:11 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:07:23PM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > [11:54PM] hamish at noddy:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/firebird2.1-super start
> > Starting Firebird 2.1 server manager...Could not open /tmp/firebird/run/isc_guard1.noddy for write
> > check /var/log/firebird2.1.log file for errors
> > can not start server
> > done.
> 
> I can't reproduce this:
> 
> # /etc/init.d/firebird2.1-super start
> Starting Firebird 2.1 server manager...done.
> # ls -la /tmp
> общо 16
> drwxrwxrwt  4 root root 4096  1 фев 15,51 .
> drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 11 авг 17,00 ..
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096  1 фев 15,10 .ICE-unix
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096  1 фев 15,10 .X11-unix
> 
> It seems the firebird binary you use is not the one from the Debian 
> package. The packaged firebird uses /usr/lib/firebird/2.1/run/ (which 
> is a symlink to /var/run/firebird/2.1, which is created in the init 
> script):
> 
> # /etc/init.d/firebird2.1-super stop
> Stopping Firebird 2.1 server manager...done.
> # mv /usr/lib/firebird/2.1/run{,-away}
> # /etc/init.d/firebird2.1-super start
> Starting Firebird 2.1 server manager...Could not open 
> /usr/lib/firebird/2.1/run/isc_guard1.tata for write
> check /var/log/firebird2.1.log file for errors
> can not start server
> done.

Hm I do have the /usr/lib/firebird/2.1/run symlink and
/var/run/firebird/2.1, and that seems to be used too:

[ 9:05AM] hamish at noddy:~ $ sudo ls -l  /tmp/firebird/run
total 0
-rw-rw-rw- 1 firebird firebird 0 Feb  1 23:54 isc_guard1.noddy
[ 9:05AM] hamish at noddy:~ $ fg
[1]  + continued  mutt

zsh: suspended  mutt
[ 9:05AM] hamish at noddy:~ $ sudo ls -l /tmp/firebird/run
total 0
-rw-rw-rw- 1 firebird firebird 0 Feb  1 23:54 isc_guard1.noddy
[ 9:05AM] hamish at noddy:~ $ sudo ls -l /var/run/firebird/2.1
total 60
-rw-r--r-- 1 firebird firebird       5 Feb  2 00:16 fbserver.pid
-rw-rw-rw- 1 firebird firebird       0 Feb  1 23:52 isc_init1.noddy
-rw-rw---- 1 firebird firebird 1048576 Feb  2 00:51 isc_lock1.noddy

Note mix of timestamps.

My only fbguard is /usr/lib/firebird/2.1/bin/fbguard, from the package.


Hamish





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