407979 – www-servers/tomcat:6 fails to run when using /run (with tmpfs)

Bug 407979 - www-servers/tomcat:6 fails to run when using /run (with tmpfs)

Summary: www-servers/tomcat:6 fails to run when using /run (with tmpfs)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Java team

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Depends on:	428002
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Reported:	2012-03-12 23:57 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified:	2012-12-07 16:52 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-12 23:57:00 UTC

The newer versions of OpenRC will use /run as tmpfs is present, to start from scratch at every boot; Tomcat though expects /var/run/tomcat-6 to be present and owned by the tomcat user when starting.

The solution is to add a checkpath (man runscript) call to re-create the directory in the init's start function.

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-25 09:33:21 UTC

tomcat apparently stores "session data" there so any *run* directory should be avoided by default.

Fixed in tomcat-6.0.35-r1.

Comment 2 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-07 16:52:34 UTC

Now in stable everywhere. Thanks for the report.