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INN (InterNetNews) Usenet server
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Unable to start inn2 version 2.6.4-2 on debian bullseye status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY #235

Closed sfdp closed 2 years ago

sfdp commented 2 years ago

Unable to start inn2 version 2.6.4-2 on debian bullseye

permission on /var/lib/private is 700

systemctl start inn2.service Job for inn2.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status inn2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

systemctl status inn2.service ● inn2.service - InterNetNews Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/inn2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2022-05-13 15:28:34 PDT; 18s ago Docs: man:innd(8) Process: 3284 ExecStart=/usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY) Main PID: 3284 (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY) CPU: 1ms

May 13 15:28:34 usenet-dev.stanford.edu systemd[1]: Starting InterNetNews... May 13 15:28:34 usenet-dev.stanford.edu systemd[3284]: inn2.service: Failed to set up special execution directory in /var/lib: Not a directory May 13 15:28:34 usenet-dev.stanford.edu systemd[3284]: inn2.service: Failed at step STATE_DIRECTORY spawning /usr/lib/news/bin/rc.news: Not a directory May 13 15:28:34 usenet-dev.stanford.edu systemd[1]: inn2.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY May 13 15:28:34 usenet-dev.stanford.edu systemd[1]: inn2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. May 13 15:28:34 usenet-dev.stanford.edu systemd[1]: Failed to start InterNetNews.

Julien-Elie commented 2 years ago

inn2.service: Failed to set up special execution directory in /var/lib: Not a directory

Where is /var/lib referenced in your inn2.service file, and what files related to INN are located in that directory?

The default inn2.service file shipped with Debian does not reference it, and I don't see any files installed in /var/lib in the default installation.

Julien-Elie commented 2 years ago

Reported in https://bugs.debian.org/1011103

In any event I have found the issue. As you can see from the above 
/var/lib/news is a symbolic link. In the service file StateDirectory is 
set to news which resolves to /var/lib/news. It seems that systemd does 
not like StateDirectory to be a symbolic link. Lesson learned.