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smstools package

smstools folder under /var/run isn't recreated after reboot

Bug #221973 reported by Peter Magnusson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
smstools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
John Dong
Hardy
Fix Released
Undecided
John Dong
Intrepid
Fix Released
Undecided
John Dong

Bug Description

Binary package hint: smstools

This is a thing I have found in other packages previous, after reboot the /var/run/xxxx folder isn't recreated.

I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and the package has version smstools-3.0.10-1
This time it is /var/run/smstools that isn't recreated after /var/run get's it regular cleanup at reboot.
This bug is somewhat related to bug #135033

This bug effectivly stops smstools from working at all after a reboot.
In /var/log/smsd.log one would find records like these..

smsd: Infofile /var/run/smstools/smsd.working cannot be created: No such file or directory
smsd: There was 1 major problem found.
smsd: Smsd main program terminated.

Steps to reproduce
1. Install package smstools ( sudo aptitude install smstools )
2. Make sure the smstools daemon is running ( sudo /etc/init.d/smstools start )
3. Verify the existence, owner and group of /var/run/smstools. It should be owned by smsd and the group should be dialout( ls -la /var/run )
4. Reboot
5. Login and repeat step 3. There shouldn't be any /var/run/smstools at all if this bug still is present

See original description
Peter Magnusson (kmpm)
description: updated
description: updated
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Peter Magnusson (kmpm) wrote :

I'm attaching a debdiff that should fix this in an possible SRU it also fixes #135033

Peter Magnusson (kmpm)
description: updated
description: updated
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Peter Magnusson (kmpm) wrote :

Disregard the previous patch use this one instead.

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Peter Magnusson (kmpm) wrote :

This patch has some issues fixed by recommendations from geser on #ubuntu-motu

target is now hardy-proposed instead of hardy
Bug closure uses LP: instead of Close:

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John Dong (jdong) wrote :

New debdiff looks good. ACK from motu-sru

Changed in smstools:
status: New → Confirmed
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John Dong (jdong) wrote :

Sponsored into hardy-proposed...

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Accepted into hardy-proposed, please test.

Changed in smstools:
assignee: nobody → jdong
assignee: nobody → jdong
status: New → Fix Committed
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Peter Magnusson (kmpm) wrote :

I have tested and the fix works for me during clean install.
A upgrade from an earlier version shows another bug that doesn't come from this fix though. Look at bug #224241

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Peter Magnusson (kmpm) wrote :

An updated patch is attached to bug #224241

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Peter Magnusson (kmpm) wrote :

This is a patch for 3.1-1 thats in Intrepid.
Bug #224241 and bug #135033 have been fixed in 3.1-1

Peter Magnusson (kmpm)
Changed in smstools:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package smstools - 3.1-1ubuntu1

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smstools (3.1-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Changes to the init.d script
    - smstools folder under /var/run isn't recreated after reboot (LP: #221973)

 -- Peter Magnusson <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Jun 2008 18:57:41 +0200

Changed in smstools:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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ShadowMax76 (shadowmax76) wrote :

After a reboot

- smstools 3.0.10-1 (hardy):

ls -la /var/run/smstools/
ls: cannot access /var/run/smstools/: No such file or directory

- smstools 3.0.10-1ubuntu0.1 (hardy-proposed):

ls -la /var/run/smstools/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 smsd dialout 60 2008-08-15 18:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 640 2008-08-15 18:48 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 smsd dialout 5 2008-08-15 18:47 smsd.pid

Updating to 3.0.10-1ubuntu0.1 solved the reboot problem, but introduced Bug #224241

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Tested, and although bug 224241 still seems to be an issue, it isn't a regression from this SRU, thus copied to -updates.

Changed in smstools:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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