Bug 411857 – media-sound/logitechmediaserver-bin fails to start when /var/run/logitechmediaserver is missing

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Roy Thompson 2012-04-13 12:59:24 UTC]

/var/run can be mounted tmpfs and cleared during a reboot.  Hence, programs (or
their init scripts) should not rely on dirs under /var/run and should create
them if necessary instead.

logitechmediaserver fails to start when /var/run/logitechmediaserver is missing.

The attached patch to the init script calls checkpath to ensure this directory exists when the service is started.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. remove /var/run/logitechmediaserver
2. try to start the service

Actual Results:  
logitechmediaserver fails to start

Expected Results:  
logitechmediaserver should start

This is a new bug based on 402399, which was the same issue for squeezeboxserver.

[Comment 1 Roy Thompson 2012-04-13 13:00:16 UTC]

Created attachment 308763 [details, diff]
patch to files/logitechmediaserver.init.d

[Comment 2 Stuart Hickinbottom 2012-04-15 20:06:13 UTC]

Created attachment 309079 [details, diff]
checkpath patch to logitechmediaserver.init.d

Thanks for the patch. I've looked at this and tested it and it's working fine.

I did a little reading around and I believe start_pre() is the correct place to do this correction (there are a number of other init scripts that do this). My version which takes this approach is attached.

Joe, I think this is OK to apply as a minor update.

[Comment 3 Joe Peterson (RETIRED) 2012-04-28 23:50:40 UTC]

Looks great - committed!  No version bump, since the problem case is probably a bit rare, and they'll likely find this bug and re-install.