[PKG-IRC-Maintainers] Bug#710283: inspircd: Starting Inspircd fails on writing to PID file

Guillaume Delacour gui at iroqwa.org
Sun Jun 2 20:29:04 UTC 2013


Le mercredi 29 mai 2013 à 16:45 +0200, Tim Gouma a écrit :
> Package: inspircd
> Version: 2.0.5-1+b1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

> 
> After configuration Inspircd always fails to start with the following error in /var/log/inspircd.log
> "Wed May 29 16:33:24 2013: Failed to write PID-file 'data/inspircd.pid', exiting." But in the config file the pid file location is configured as /var/run/inspircd.pid
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages inspircd depends on:
> ii  libc6             2.13-38
> ii  libgcc1           1:4.7.2-5
> ii  libgeoip1         1.4.8+dfsg-3
> ii  libgnutls26       2.12.20-6
> ii  libldap-2.4-2     2.4.31-1+nmu2
> ii  libmysqlclient18  5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1
> ii  libpcre3          1:8.30-5
> ii  libpq5            9.2.4-1.pgdg70+1
> ii  libsqlite3-0      3.7.13-1+deb7u1
> ii  libstdc++6        4.7.2-5
> ii  libtre5           0.8.0-3
> ii  lsb-base          4.1+Debian8
> ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
> 
> inspircd recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages inspircd suggests:
> pn  gnutls-bin    <none>
> pn  ldap-server   <none>
> pn  mysql-server  <none>
> pn  postgresql    <none>
> pn  sqlite3       <none>
> 
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/default/inspircd changed:
> INSPIRCD_ENABLED=1
> 
> /etc/inspircd/inspircd.conf changed:
> <pid file="/var/run/inspircd.pid" />
Problem with "/"                    ^

You've edited your configuration and add a slash before ">", this is why
inspircd fails to start (reproduced with wheezy chroot). The correct
(package default) directive might be :

   <pid file="/var/run/inspircd.pid">


> ----- Cut Irrelevant Parts of Config file -----
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

-- 
Guillaume Delacour <gui at iroqwa.org>
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