Wrong BIN in /etc/default/shinken

[Micke Löfstrand]

Shinken doesn't start out of the box on Trusty Tahr when installing due to a changed(?) path for BIN in /etc/default/shinken which seems to be /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/shinken/bin/ now. Please see details below.

$ sudo service shinken start
Starting scheduler:
 * FAILED: did not found scheduler file (/usr/share/pyshared/shinken/bin//shinken-scheduler) ; are you sure shinken-scheduler is installed?
   ...fail!
Starting poller:
 * FAILED: did not found poller file (/usr/share/pyshared/shinken/bin//shinken-poller) ; are you sure shinken-poller is installed?
   ...fail!
Starting reactionner:
 * FAILED: did not found reactionner file (/usr/share/pyshared/shinken/bin//shinken-reactionner) ; are you sure shinken-reactionner is installed?
   ...fail!
Starting broker:
 * FAILED: did not found broker file (/usr/share/pyshared/shinken/bin//shinken-broker) ; are you sure shinken-broker is installed?
   ...fail!
Starting receiver:
 * FAILED: did not found receiver file (/usr/share/pyshared/shinken/bin//shinken-receiver) ; are you sure shinken-receiver is installed?
   ...fail!
Starting arbiter:
 * FAILED: did not found arbiter file (/usr/share/pyshared/shinken/bin//shinken-arbiter) ; are you sure shinken-arbiter is installed?
   ...fail!

$ cat /etc/default/shinken
...
## These vars will override the hardcoded ones in init script ##
ETC=/etc/shinken/
VAR=/var/lib/shinken/
BIN=/usr/share/pyshared/shinken/bin/
RUN=/var/run/shinken/
LOG=/var/log/shinken/
...

Changing that to:
$ cat /etc/default/shinken
...
## These vars will override the hardcoded ones in init script ##
ETC=/etc/shinken/
VAR=/var/lib/shinken/
#BIN=/usr/share/pyshared/shinken/bin/
BIN=/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/shinken/bin/
RUN=/var/run/shinken/
LOG=/var/log/shinken/
...

et voilá:

$ sudo service shinken restart
Restarting scheduler
   ...done.
Restarting poller
   ...done.
Restarting reactionner
   ...done.
Restarting broker
   ...done.
Restarting receiver
   ...done.
Restarting arbiter
Doing config check
   ...done.
   ...done.

More information:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04

$ dpkg -l | grep shinken
ii shinken 1.4-2 amd64 Flexible monitoring tool - Meta-package
ii shinken-common 1.4-2 amd64 Flexible monitoring tool - Common files
ii shinken-module-broker-webui 1.4-2 amd64 Shinken WebUI broker module
ii shinken-module-broker-webui-cfgpassword 1.4-2 amd64 Shinken cfg_password authentifcation module for WebUI broker
ii shinken-module-broker-webui-sqlitedb 1.4-2 amd64 Shinken Sqlite storage module for WebUI broker
ii shinken-module-retention-picklefile 1.4-2 amd64 Retention module for Arbiter, Scheduler or Broker

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package shinken - 1.4.2-3

---------------
shinken (1.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix bin path. LP: #1300394
  * Vcs-Git & Vcs-browser

  [ Sylvestre Ledru ]
  * Silent 3 lintian errors. The sources are there.

 -- Thibault Cohen <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:31:28 -0400

[Jibus (jibe555)]

Using 14.04.2 LTS - No fix for now after update and upgrade packages...

'Solved' the problem (more or less a workaround) by creating a symlink :

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/shinken /usr/share/pyshared/shinken

[Simon Morgan (sjmorgan)]

The package in 14.04 is still broken.