Mismatch between vboxweb.service systemd file and startup script causes unit to fail

[Sam Van den Eynde]

The systemd file that was shipped in focal contains:

...
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh start
PIDFile=/run/vboxweb.pid
...

But the script that it calls uses a different file for PID:

cat /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh:

...
SCRIPTNAME=vboxweb-service.sh
...
PIDFILE="/var/run/${SCRIPTNAME}"
...

Which causes the unit to fail on my system.

I think the script is wrong but since I find it easier to track I fixed this by copying the systemd unit to /etc and changing it there.

cat /etc/systemd/system/vboxweb.service:

[Unit]
Description=VirtualBox Web Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh start
PIDFile=/run/vboxweb-service.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Which works fine after doing a systemctl daemon-reload.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: virtualbox 6.1.10-dfsg-1~ubuntu1.20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-53.59-lowlatency 5.4.65
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-53-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.11
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Nov 13 09:15:47 2020
SourcePackage: virtualbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-07 (189 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.default.virtualbox: 2020-07-18T01:32:05.356307

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

lovely thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 6.1.16-dfsg-4

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virtualbox (6.1.16-dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Sam Van den Eynde ]
  * Fix vboxweb.service startup script, from Sam Van den Eynde (LP: #1904123, LP: #1825598)
  * Now the script also sources /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg that can contain all the
    required variables.

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:12:27 +0100