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FS#65875 - [pound] systemd service unable to start process

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Thomas Gruber (Wyrucz) - Wednesday, 18 March 2020, 02:30 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Sunday, 13 September 2020, 14:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To David Runge (dvzrv)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The systemd service /usr/lib/systemd/system/pound.service uses DynamicUser=yes and RuntimeDirectory=pound. ExecStart gives pound the parameter -p /run/pound.pid and PIDFile uses the same Path. Pound fails to start with
Create "/run/pound.pid": Read-only file system

Additional info:
* package version(s): pound 2.8-1

Steps to reproduce:
# systemctl start pound
Job for pound.service failed because the service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration.
See "systemctl status pound.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

pound logs the following to pound.log:
Mar 18 02:04:03 rpx-dmz-01 pound[1843]: starting...
Mar 18 02:04:03 rpx-dmz-01 pound[1844]: Create "/run/pound.pid": Read-only file system

Steps to fix:
Specifying "/run/pound/pound.pid" in ExecStart and PIDFile in /usr/lib/systemd/system/pound.service works as intended.
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Closed by  David Runge (dvzrv)
Sunday, 13 September 2020, 14:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed with pound 2.8-3
Comment by David Runge (dvzrv) - Sunday, 13 September 2020, 14:25 GMT
@Wyrucz: Thanks for the report!

I will include this fix in an upcoming pkgrel bump

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