uuidd fails to start

[JD]

On 05/29/2012 03:32 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 03:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 05/29/2012 03:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> Third, to work around the problem add the following to the beginning of the init script.
>>>
>>> mkdir /var/run/uuidd
>>> chown uuidd:uuidd /var/run/uuidd
>> Their seems to be some other minor problems surrounding this suggestion.  Need to
>> read the script and see what needs to be done for real....but eating dinner at the
>> moment....  :-)
>>
> What you really want is to add this....
>
> if ! [ -d /var/run/uuidd ]
>     then
>        mkdir /var/run/uuidd
>        chown uuidd:uuidd /var/run/uuidd
> fi
>
> That doesn't fix the problem about "systemctl stop uuidd.service" not stopping the
> service.
>
after adding the lines to create dir /var/run/uuidd
and chowning it; starting the daemon just hangs.
# service uuidd start
Starting uuidd (via systemctl):
And it stays there forever until interrupted.