Bug 218028 – openrc-0.2.2: rc-status report dhcdbd service as crashed when run as normal user

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jie Luo 2008-04-16 21:23:13 UTC]

rc-status report dhcdbd service as [ started ] when run as root, but report it as [ crashed ] when run as normal user. This may be related to the pid file created by dhcdbd, it looks strange.

l /var/run/dhcdbd.pid 
--wS--S--T 1 root root 5 2008-04-17 05:01 /var/run/dhcdbd.pid

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run rc-status as normal user.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Runlevel: default
 syslog-ng                                                                                                       [  started  ]
 gpm                                                                                                             [  started  ]
 hdparm                                                                                                          [  started  ]
 dbus                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 consolekit                                                                                                      [  started  ]
 hald                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 xdm                                                                                                             [  started  ]
 fuse                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 ntpd                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 sshd                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 fcron                                                                                                           [  started  ]
 dhcdbd                                                                                                          [  crashed  ]
 NetworkManager                                                                                                  [  started  ]
 postfix                                                                                                         [  started  ]
 local                                                                                                           [  started  ]
Runlevel: UNASSIGNED


Expected Results:  
Runlevel: default
 syslog-ng                                                                                                       [  started  ]
 gpm                                                                                                             [  started  ]
 hdparm                                                                                                          [  started  ]
 dbus                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 consolekit                                                                                                      [  started  ]
 hald                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 xdm                                                                                                             [  started  ]
 fuse                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 ntpd                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 sshd                                                                                                            [  started  ]
 fcron                                                                                                           [  started  ]
 dhcdbd                                                                                                          [  started  ]
 NetworkManager                                                                                                  [  started  ]
 postfix                                                                                                         [  started  ]
 local                                                                                                           [  started  ]
Runlevel: UNASSIGNED

[Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-04-16 21:36:57 UTC]

This goes back to what we were talking about last week Roy. We basically need to say "hey permissions weren't available to get this info accurately"

[Comment 2 Roy Marples 2008-04-17 00:30:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This goes back to what we were talking about last week Roy. We basically need
> to say "hey permissions weren't available to get this info accurately"
> 

I suppose we could tag a message at the end of rc-status saying "Some services are reported as crashed, but as you're not the root user we may not have full permission to check" or some such.

BTW, if you talk to me, add me to the CC list :P

[Comment 3 Roy Marples 2008-04-21 10:58:06 UTC]

Created attachment 150489 [details, diff]
Don't report crashed when we don't have permission to read the pidfile

This should fix things

[Comment 4 Jie Luo 2008-04-21 23:35:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=150489) [edit]
> Don't report crashed when we don't have permission to read the pidfile
> 
> This should fix things
> 

Yes, it works.

[Comment 5 geek 2008-05-08 15:59:43 UTC]

*** Bug 215940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 geek 2008-05-08 16:01:57 UTC]

This can be closed now.  It is fixed in openrc-0.2.3.