quoting bug misplaces /var/lib/hibinit-agent

[Tired Sysadmin]

Package version 1.0.0-0ubuntu11.22.04.2

The latest default /etc/hibinit-config.cfg contains the lines

    # Location where to create any state files
    state-dir = "/var/lib/hibinit-agent"

However, the executable reading this file doesn't understand about quoting, thus creating a directory named <<">> in the root directory, with subdirectories <<var>>, <<lib>>, and <<hibinit-agent">> underneath:

$ /bin/ls -lFR /\"
'/"':
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 23 17:45 var/

'/"/var':
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 23 17:45 lib/

'/"/var/lib':
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 17:45 'hibinit-agent"'/

'/"/var/lib/hibinit-agent"':
total 0

And of course, there is no /var/lib/hibinit-agent directory. The actual agent process still behaves as normal, it's merely an eye-rolling chuckle to *nix veterans, and probably confusing as all hell to *nix newbies.

Editing the .cfg file to remove the quotes and issuing a "systemctl restart hibinit-agent.service" will re-create the directory in the proper place in the filesystem. Cleaning up the misplaced directory tree was a simple matter of some carefully spelled rmdir commands.

[Mitchell Dzurick (mitchdz)]

Thank you for submitting this bug! This is being tracked in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ec2-hibinit-agent/+bug/2023924 already and is in the process of being merged into Jammy already.