Re: [Monotone-debian] PID file can't be created

[Richard Levitte]

Uhmmm, you CAN mount /var/run on tmpfs, and either way, it will be
wiped at reboot (is that what you mean with "restart"?), which is
a perfectly correct way to behave.

It feels much more like a problem with the stability of the mount, for
reasons I cannot fathom at this point, than anything else.

The only thing I can think of is that the init script may need to
create the /var/run/monotone directory...  Is that something you could
try out?

Cheers,
Richard

In message <address@hidden> on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:01:51 +0100, Thomas Keller 
<address@hidden> said:

me> 
me> Hi!
me> 
me> I've encountered a small nuisance with the init script of the monotone
me> debian package 0.37-4. I'm using this package on Ubuntu 8.04 and
me> apparently this distro mounts /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs which
me> "sometimes" likes to wipeout its contents (at least regularily on a
me> restart). This leads to the problem that start-stop-daemon just logs
me> 
me> mtn: error: failed to create pid file '/var/run/monotone/mtn.pid'
me> 
me> and of course does not start mtn serve. I've found a similar problem
me> with another package [0] and my question is now if this is actually a
me> bug with the monotone package or an upstream Ubuntu bug (I don't know if
me> Debian's /var/run is also mounted on tmpfs by default). How should I
me> proceed here? Maybe this problem was already fixed in a newer package?
me> 
me> Thanks in advance,
me> Thomas.
me> 
me> [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/aide/+bug/114730
me> 
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