package havp retitle 418414 /var/run/havp is owned by root thanks Am Montag, den 09.04.2007, 18:52 +0200 schrieb Björn Heide: > invoke-rc.d: initscript havp, action "stop" failed. > #
I investigated this a bit and found out that havp fails to stop because havp failed to write its pid file because /var/run/havp is owned by root: $ ls -ld /var/run/havp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-04 20:57 /var/run/havp After I looked in havp's postinst file it comes clear what happened: relevant part of havp.postinst: if ! getent passwd havp >/dev/null; then adduser --quiet --system --no-create-home \ --home /var/run/havp --ingroup havp havp || true chown havp:havp /var/run/havp chown havp:havp /var/log/havp chown havp:havp /var/lib/havp chown havp:havp /var/spool/havp fi Because there was already an user havp on my machine (left behind from an old havp install) the chown commands never got executed. greetings Björn