hobbit-client fails to load config due to missing /var/run/hobbit

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root@adamg-desktop:/etc/init.d# ./hobbit-client start
./hobbit-client: 79: cannot create /var/run/hobbit/bbdisp-runtime.cfg: Directory nonexistent
./hobbit-client: 79: cannot create /var/run/hobbit/clientlaunch-include.cfg: Directory nonexistent
Starting Hobbit Client: hobbitclient.

These errors are due to /var/run/hobbit not existing.
At each reboot, it seems the /var/run/hobbit directory is removed again.

Details:
1) Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
2) hobbit-client:
  Installed: 4.2.0.dfsg-10
  Candidate: 4.2.0.dfsg-10
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.0.dfsg-10 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) Hobbit client to start reporting it's status to my Hobbit server
4) Hobbit status went purple, as the hobbit client was not reporting to my Hobbit server due to not knowing where the hobbit server is.

[Daniel Paufler (d-paufler-ergomedia)]

same here. We set the following in our init.d script

--- snipp ---
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

# Create hobbitclient PIDDIR
if [ -d /var/run -a ! -d /var/run/hobbit ]; then
        mkdir -p /var/run/hobbit
        chown hobbit.hobbit /var/run/hobbit
fi

# Set the right rights
if [ -d /var/lib/hobbit/tmp ]; then
        chown -R hobbit.hobbit /var/lib/hobbit/tmp
        chown -R hobbit.hobbit /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp
fi

# Include hobbitclient defaults if available
if [ -f /etc/default/hobbit-client ] ; then
        . /etc/default/hobbit-client
fi
--- snipp ---

[Slight Slightly (slight--deactivatedaccount)]

Same problem here. Thanks for the fix Daniel.

[Christoph Berg (myon)]

Please consider forwarding bugs to Debian so I can also fix them in the hobbit package there.

[Arie Skliarouk (skliarie)]

The problem exists in hobbit-client from ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) as well.

[hexagram (denis-crewhub)]

Christoph, there is not the same issue on debian due to the system architecture of directories which is different on debian.
Arie, the problem is in every version of ubuntu packages (even in 9.10)
I'm suprised that nothing has be one since early 2008...

[Asif (vadud3)]

We are experiencing the same issue as well.

Currently we are doing the following manually.

~$ sudo mkdir /var/run/hobbit
~$ sudo pkill -u hobbit
~$ sudo /etc/init.d/hobbit-client start
 * Starting Hobbit Client hobbitclient
   ...done.

We could add the change that ourself, but would be nice if the package gets fixed in the repo.

[C Schuman (k4gbb1-embarqmail)]

I have approx 22 client sites setup on Ubuntu servers.
While we are waiting for the Packages to be updated.

add :

# Set the correct rights
if [ -d /var/lib/hobbit/tmp ]; then
        chown -R hobbit.hobbit /var/lib/hobbit/tmp
        chown -R hobbit.hobbit /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp
fi

I add this behind :

# Create hobbitclient PIDDIR
if [ -d /var/run -a ! -d /var/run/hobbit ]; then
        mkdir -p /var/run/hobbit
        chown hobbit.hobbit /var/run/hobbit
fi

<<Charley>>

Asif wrote:
> We are experiencing the same issue as well.
>
> Currently we are doing the following manually.
>
> ~$ sudo mkdir /var/run/hobbit
> ~$ sudo pkill -u hobbit
> ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/hobbit-client start
> * Starting Hobbit Client hobbitclient
> ...done.
>
> We could add the change that ourself, but would be nice if the package
> gets fixed in the repo.
>
>