bad path to configuration file

[Pavel Mlčoch]

Binary package hint: bacula

When start in another directory as /etc/bacula I've got:

mlcoch@petrojky:~$ bacula-tray-monitor
09-Dec 11:01 tray-monitor: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:829
Config error: Cannot open config file "./tray-monitor.conf": No such file or directory

[Juha (juha-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:

If I run bacula-tray-monitor from shell, it works. If I try to start it from
menus, it won't.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bacula-traymonitor-2.0.3-11.fc8

[Gwyn (gwyn-redhat-bugs)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 426791 ***

[Manuel (manuel-redhat-bugs)]

*** Bug 426791 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Juha (juha-redhat-bugs)]

a) you can't mark bug #426791 as duplicate of this bug and vice versa.
b) this is a bug, it has been there in f8 and is still present in f9.

It would help if you would take 5min time and try or *even* use it yourself.

~% bacula-tray-monitor
07-Oct 12:50 tray-monitor: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:829
Config error: Cannot open config file "./tray-monitor.conf": No such file or directory

~% cd /etc/bacula
/etc/bacula% bacula-tray-monitor
Connecting to Director xxxx.xxxx.ee:9101
Opened connection with Director daemon.
Connecting to Client xxxx.xxxxx.ee:9102

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 308903, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Pavel Mlčoch (pavkamlc)]

Sorry, but your change is for me illogical. My bug is reported 2008-12-09, and #308903 at 2008-12-17. So by my is yann's bug duplicate, not my.

[Pavel Mlčoch (pavkamlc)]

And after detailed reading I think, this isn't duplicate of this bug, because Ive had installed It without problem. Problem is after start clients. They find configuration file in wrong path, but in #308903 is finded configuration in good path, but there isn't any file.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

You're completely right, this is not a duplicate. Sorry.

[Felix (felix-redhat-bugs)]

Juha: Actually I think you are right that this is not a dup of bug 426791. Probably the problem is that the tray monitor application is in /usr/sbin and the desktop file does not use a fully qualified path. Can you please check if this solves your problem:
In /usr/share/applications/fedora-bacula-traymonitor.desktop change
Exec=bacula-tray-monitor -c /etc/bacula/tray-monitor.conf

to:
Exec=/usr/sbin/bacula-tray-monitor -c /etc/bacula/tray-monitor.conf

Maybe the line is different in newer Fedoras, I just fixed this for EL4. If the fix above works for you I will take care of pushing it to all branches (EL5+F9/F10+devel).

Thanks for noticing.

[Juha (juha-redhat-bugs)]

Yes, it helps for f9 at least. And i do have sbin in my paths. that bug 426791 still exists in f9 and probably in f10,rawhide too.

[Gwyn (gwyn-redhat-bugs)]

The consolehelper behaviour has been fixed in recent releases.

[Ante Karamatić (ivoks)]

You should start the program as:

bacula-tray-monitor -c /etc/bacula/tray-monitor.conf

I wouldn't call this a bug, but a feature request. Program works fine if it is started as it should :)

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[Juha (juha-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> The consolehelper behaviour has been fixed in recent releases.

Yeah right it is not.

[Gwyn (gwyn-redhat-bugs)]

*** Bug 505727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Juha (juha-redhat-bugs)]

Andreas ping. You own this package this has been open since December 2007, time to make a simple fix? Fedora is shipping GUI menu entries that don't work!

[Gwyn (gwyn-redhat-bugs)]

FYI, I'm working on a new build for rawhide, and will backport the desktop files.

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bacula-2.4.4-4.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
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[Stephanos (stephanos-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #10)
> *** Bug 505727 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Jon bug 505727 is not an exact duplicate of this bug.

It contains three issues.
The first might be fixed with the absolute path in the desktop file but i don't think so because /usr/bin/gnome-console is linked to consolehelper and not /isr/sbin/bgnome-console

The other two are still there.

Just check the contents of /etc/security/console.apps/wxconsole
and /etc/security/console.apps/bat. These files are not consolehelper files they are desktop files

Should i reopen it or continue in this one?

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[Stephanos (stephanos-redhat-bugs)]

There are still problems

[stef@testing ~]$ /usr/sbin/bgnome-console -c /etc/bacula/bgnome-console.conf
04-Aug 00:04 bgnome-console: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:829
Config error: Cannot open config file "/etc/bacula/bgnome-console.conf": Permission denied

[stef@testing ~]$ /usr/sbin/wxconsole -c /etc/bacula/bwxconsole.conf
bash: /usr/sbin/wxconsole: No such file or directory

[stef@testing ~]$ /usr/sbin/bacula-tray-monitor -c /etc/bacula/tray-monitor.conf
04-Aug 00:16 tray-monitor: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:829
Config error: Cannot open config file "/etc/bacula/tray-monitor.conf": Permission denied

You don't need absolute paths pointing to /usr/sbin in desktop files. If you want to use them then at least use /usr/bin since there are the symlinks to consolehelper.

Also please change the contents of the /etc/security/console.apps files

[stef@testing ~]$ cat /etc/security/console.apps/wxconsole [Desktop Entry]
Name=Bacula WX Console
Comment=Bacula Director Console
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/wxwin16x16.xpm
Exec=/usr/bin/bwx-console -c /etc/bacula/bwx-console.conf
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.3
Categories=System;Application;Utility;X-Red-Hat-Base;
[stef@testing ~]$

[stef@testing ~]$ cat /etc/security/console.apps/bat
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Bacula Administration Tool
Comment=Bacula Director Console
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/bat_icon.png
Exec=/usr/bin/bat -c /etc/bacula/bat.conf
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
StartupNotify=true
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.3
Categories=System;Application;Utility;X-Red-Hat-Base;
[stef@testing ~]$

[stef@testing ~]$ cat /etc/security/console.apps/bacula-tray-monitor
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Bacula Monitor
GenericName=Bacula Tray Monitor
Comment=Monitor your Bacula Backup server
Exec=/usr/bin/bacula-tray-monitor -c /etc/bacula/tray-monitor.conf
Icon=bacula-tray-monitor.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=System;Application;Utility
[stef@testing ~]$

the above are not the same as the other files in that directory
i.e.
[stef@testing ~]$ cat /etc/security/console.apps/bgnome-console
USER=root
PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/bgnome-console
SESSION=true
[stef@testing ~]$

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[Stephanos (stephanos-redhat-bugs)]

The issues of #c22 are still present

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[tony (tony-redhat-bugs)]

This is a simple bug and a simple fix. The menu command starts with only use permissions but the configuration files in /etc/bacula are restricted. Temporary fix is to make the .conf files read and write to all.
Tony

[Juha (juha-redhat-bugs)]

btw, am i only one who now sees rectangular boxes in place of every character where the messages are drawn?

It looks like messages would have been written in chinese and software failed to find proper font for it. Perhaps the protocol changed somehow?

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