uuidd fails to start

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/29/2012 03:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> First, file a bugzilla.

I've decided not to spend any more time on this as uuidd appears to be broken in more
than one way.  It is also broken in more than one way +1 in F17.

First, if you install uuidd the /var/run/uuidd directory is created and you can do:

[root at f16-1 ~]# systemctl enable uuidd.service
uuidd.service is not a native service, redirecting to /sbin/chkconfig.
Executing /sbin/chkconfig uuidd on

and all appears fine as chkconfig shows

uuidd           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

But then, if you do "systemctl start uuidd.service" the command appears to hang. 
When you ctrl-C it you exit and uuidd is running and a socket and uuidd.pid files are
created in /var/run/uuidd

However, "systemctl stop uuidd.service" does not stop the service.

In F17 it gets slightly worse as starting the service results in a SELinux denial.

So, if you need this service, I'll leave it to you to bugzilla it as you're more
interested it than I am.  :-)



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