[Mageia-dev] /run/httpd (maybe others) breaking features

Thu Jan 24 02:40:27 CET 2013

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 24/01/13 00:24 did gyre and gimble:
+>> I was looking at perl-Apache2-DebugFilter build failure
+>>
+>> In the test it starts an apache which fails as it uses
+>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/rewritemap.html#prg which
+>> uses a mutex stored in /run/httpd/
+>>
+>> [Wed Jan 23 23:49:55.962405 2013] [core:emerg] [pid 55277]
+>> (13)Permission denied: AH00023: Couldn't create the rewrite-map mutex
+>> (file /run/httpd/rewrite-map.55277)
+>>
+>> That directory is now owned by root so it can't be used for anything
+>> except creating the httpd.pid
+>>
+>> $ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/httpd.conf
+>> d /run/httpd   755 root root
+>>
+>> Fedora uses "d /run/httpd   710 root apache" which doesn't help in
+>> this case but fixes other problems
+>>
+>> In the past (Mageia 1) runtimedir was /var/run directly so it was
+>> possible to create mutex files there for any user
+>
+> Hmm, not sure what you mean here.
+>
+> [colin at mga2 ~]$ ls -ld /var/run
+> drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 4096 Jan 23 04:04 /var/run/
+>
+> That dir is also owned by root with 755 perm. It shouldn't make any odds
+> to permissions.
+
+Hmm you are right, I don't know why it got broken then
+
+It used to use /var/run/ as runtime dir and it succeeded creating the mutex
+It now fails to create it in /run/httpd/
+
+I don't have more clues :(
+
+It may be some change in apache but I couldn't find, I'll try to find
+out more tomorrow
+