httpd and svn problems (rawhide)

[Paul Howarth]

On 03/01/11 17:04, darrell pfeifer wrote:
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>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 08:53, Paul F. Johnson
> <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk <mailto:paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk>> wrote:
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>
>     First is httpd (apache).
>
>     I can do /etc/init.d/httpd stop and the server stops, but when I try to
>     start the server I get
>
>     Starting httpd (via systemctl):  Job failed. See system logs and
>     'systemctl status' for details.
>
>     systemctl status httpd.service shows
>
>     httpd.service - LSB: start and stop Apache HTTP Server
>               Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd)
>               Active: failed since Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:39:18 +0000; 33s ago
>              Process: 3902 (/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop, code=exited,
>     status=0/SUCCESS)
>              Process: 1959 (/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start, code=exited,
>     status=1/FAILURE)
>             Main PID: 2054 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>               CGroup: name=systemd:/system/httpd.service
>                       └ 2086 /usr/sbin/httpd
>
>     cat /var/log/messages | tail is also unhelpful
>
>     Jan  3 16:41:34 PB3 systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited,
>     code=exited status=1
>     Jan  3 16:41:34 PB3 systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.
>
>
> The stop command leaves one httpd process running. Kill it off first.
>
> httpd fails to start because it is trying to create a file in
> /var/run/httpd but the directory doesn't exist.
>
> As a temporary workaround I've been
>
> 1) stop httpd
> 2) kill the last remaining httpd
> 3) create /var/run/httpd
> 4) start http
>
> There is a outstanding bug that Lennart created.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656600

There's a very simple fix for that in the ticket until such time as 
there's native systemd support added.

Paul.