Re: httpd and svn problems (rawhide)

[Paul Howarth]

On 03/01/11 17:04, darrell pfeifer wrote:
>  On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 08:53, Paul F. Johnson
>  <paul(a)all-the-johnsons.co.uk <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>
>      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.