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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] /run/httpd (maybe others) breaking features</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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    <I>Thu Jan 24 10:24:37 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 24/01/13 01:40 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Colin Guthrie &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>&gt; wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 24/01/13 00:24 did gyre and gimble:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I was looking at perl-Apache2-DebugFilter build failure
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> In the test it starts an apache which fails as it uses
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/rewritemap.html#prg">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/rewritemap.html#prg</A> which
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> uses a mutex stored in /run/httpd/
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> [Wed Jan 23 23:49:55.962405 2013] [core:emerg] [pid 55277]
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> (13)Permission denied: AH00023: Couldn't create the rewrite-map mutex
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> (file /run/httpd/rewrite-map.55277)
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> That directory is now owned by root so it can't be used for anything
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> except creating the httpd.pid
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> $ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/httpd.conf
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> d /run/httpd   755 root root
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Fedora uses &quot;d /run/httpd   710 root apache&quot; which doesn't help in
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> this case but fixes other problems
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> In the past (Mageia 1) runtimedir was /var/run directly so it was
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> possible to create mutex files there for any user
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hmm, not sure what you mean here.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">colin at mga2</A> ~]$ ls -ld /var/run
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 4096 Jan 23 04:04 /var/run/
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> That dir is also owned by root with 755 perm. It shouldn't make any odds
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> to permissions.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Hmm you are right, I don't know why it got broken then
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> It used to use /var/run/ as runtime dir and it succeeded creating the mutex
</I>&gt;<i> It now fails to create it in /run/httpd/
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I don't have more clues :(
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> It may be some change in apache but I couldn't find, I'll try to find
</I>&gt;<i> out more tomorrow
</I>
If this is on the build system, perhaps the tmpfiles stuff isn't run for
some reason and /run/httpd isnt't created. And then maybe code in apache
tries to mkdir /run/httpd and that's where the permission denied error
comes from?

/me is clutching at straws here :)

Col


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