Hello David, Thanks for your bug report. Trafficserver 7.1.3+ds-4~bpo9+1, which includes tmpfile config file, has been uploaded to stretch-backport. Could you please test and report wether it works or not ?
Cheers, Jean Baptiste On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:18:39 +0000 David Brodin <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: trafficserver > Version: 7.1.2+ds-3~bpo9+1 > X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > > Hi all, > > After having a memory leak (~2MB/min) in stable/trafficserver I installed > stretch-backports/trafficserver and the memory leak seems fixed, only cached > memory is increasing, not used real. > However, when rebooting, trafficserver was not able to start normally: > > Jul 18 09:09:59 host systemd[1]: Started Apache Traffic Server is a fast, > > scalable and extensible caching proxy server.. > > Jul 18 09:09:59 host traffic_cop[3019]: binpath is bin > > Jul 18 09:09:59 host traffic_cop[3019]: unable to locate local state > > directory '/var/run/trafficserver' > > Jul 18 09:09:59 host traffic_cop[3019]: please try setting correct root > > path in either env variable TS_ROOT > > Jul 18 09:09:59 host systemd[1]: trafficserver.service: Main process > > exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE > > Jul 18 09:09:59 host systemd[1]: trafficserver.service: Unit entered failed > > state. > > Jul 18 09:09:59 host systemd[1]: trafficserver.service: Failed with result > > 'exit-code’. > > Upon investigation (googling) I found a CentOS 7 post > (http://apache-traffic-server.24303.n7.nabble.com/Traffic-server-fails-to-start-Centos-7-td3574.html) > about the same issue, the thread recommended using > RuntimDirectory=trafficserver and RunTimeDirectoryPreserve=restart in > trafficservers service-file. > This did not work either as the directory was created with a sid/gid of > root/root and not trafficserver/trafficserver. > I then tried using PermissionsStartOnly=True and setting User=,Group= to > trafficserver, but as trafficserver chroots(?) itself I got this error > instead: > > Jul 18 09:51:46 host traffic_manager[4268]: Fatal: failed to acquire > > privileged capabilities: Operation not permitted > > I tried another thing, which I can’t remember now of course, but I got the > following error for that: > > Jul 18 09:55:21 host traffic_manager[4464]: Fatal: > > [LocalManager::initMgmtProcessServer] failed to bind socket at > > /var/run/trafficserver/processerver.sock > > Either way, I ended up using tmpfiles.d: > > root@host:~# cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/trafficserver.conf > > #Type Path Mode UID GID > > Age Argument > > d /run/trafficserver 0755 trafficserver trafficserver - > > Which after another reboot worked just fine. I’m sure there is a more elegant > fix for this, but shy of ExecStartPre=mkdir … I wasn’t able to figure out any > other way. > Seeing as trafficserver can’t start after a normal reboot, I thought I should > report this. > I’ve also tested this on a fresh install of Debian 9.5 with the same error. > > -- System Information: > > root@host:~# uname -a > > Linux host 4.9.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-1 (2018-07-05) x86_64 > > GNU/Linux > > root@host:~# lsb_release -a > > No LSB modules are available. > > Distributor ID: Debian > > Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch) > > Release: 9.5 > > Codename: stretch > > Thanks, > David > — > David Brodin > Sveriges Radio AB > Phone: +46 (0)8 784 2329 > Email: [email protected] > https://sr.se/
