remote-tty won't start correctly after the reboot: /var/run/remote-tty doesn't' exists

[Ryoichi Shimizu]

Binary package hint: remote-tty

This package has a few bugs in the startup script, /etc/init.d/remote-tty.
Ubuntu 8.04 uses an "==" instead of "=" in a test. On 9.04 before running
startsrv, you need to add:

    mkdir -p /var/run/remote-tty/sock
    mkdir -p /var/run/remote-tty/pid
    chown -R rttymgr:rttymgr /var/run/remote-tty

You don't just after package installation, but /var/run is cleared on reboot.

TEST CASE:
1. install remote-tty
2. check that the following directories exist
/var/run/remote-tty/
/var/run/remote-tty/pid
/var/run/remote-tty/sock
3. Reboot your computer
4. check that the following directories exist
/var/run/remote-tty/
/var/run/remote-tty/pid
/var/run/remote-tty/sock

VERIFICATION SUCCEEDED:
- The directories exist

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The bashism is fixed since 4.0-12. The creation of the /var/run/remote-tty directory in init script still exists in maverick.
Setting status to triaged/medium.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

here is a fix for maverick. This is exactly the same patch for Lucid since it's the same version of the package.
The creation of directories /var/run/{sock,pid} and ownership have been moved from installation to the init script.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

increasing priority to high because the package is unusable.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

patch update with the right Maintainer

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Patch looks good, uploading.

For next time: you replaced tabs with spaces in your patch, try to keep to original indentation. (even if this file was a bit ugly)

Please forward this bug (and patch) to Debian and link the Debian bug to this one.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

BTW: I made one more change:

* Depend on $remote_fs in init script

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Fantastic, thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Nominating for SRU / Lucid:
- package is broken and remote-tty fails to start after a reboot when /var/run is of type tmpfs.
- safe patch (directories creation moved from install script to init script) and non critical application
- Regression: None, the package is currently unusable.
- updated patch with Stefano's change attached