[Bug 444485] Re: gmetad doesn't start after installation of ganglia-monitor (gmond)

2011-06-24 Thread Andres Rodriguez
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[Bug 444485] Re: gmetad doesn't start after installation of ganglia-monitor (gmond)

2011-06-24 Thread Simon Bazley
Sorry Hadn't realised this was purely karmic. I identified the problem on lucid and on maverik. I've never used karmic, but I have had this problem. Is there an easy way to transfer it over to a different version of ubuntu? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Bug 444485] Re: gmetad doesn't start after installation of ganglia-monitor (gmond)

2011-06-24 Thread Simon Bazley
Hi Andres, Sorry Hadn't realised the bug, was just about karmic. I've only used lucid/maverik, and have encountered it a few times. Could the bug be re-identified as lucid or my comments be transfered to a new bug? Simon On 24/06/11 16:11, Andres Rodriguez wrote: Thank you for taking the

[Bug 444485] Re: gmetad doesn't start after installation of ganglia-monitor (gmond)

2011-01-14 Thread Simon Bazley
I think the actual bug is misidentified here, even if the effect is the same:- If you install gmetad on a virgin machine, it creates /var/lib/ganglia/rrds owned by nobody. If you install ganglia-monitor on a virgin machine it creates /var/lib/ganglia/rrds owned by ganglia If you install gmetad

[Bug 444485] Re: gmetad doesn't start after installation of ganglia-monitor (gmond)

2011-01-14 Thread Simon Bazley
The bug appears to be in the ganglia.diff.gz file in the package source. It includes code which creates a debian folder, within which is create a file ganglia-monitor.postinst That file includes code which will create the directory /var/lib/ganglia/rrds and then run chown -R ganglia:ganglia

[Bug 444485] Re: gmetad doesn't start after installation of ganglia-monitor (gmond)

2011-01-14 Thread Simon Bazley
This is fixed in maverick, by changing the above bit of package code to remove the references to rrds and the -R to leave rrds alone. :- 3337 +if [ -d /var/lib/ganglia ]; then 3338 + chown ganglia:ganglia /var/lib/ganglia 3339 + chmod 0755 /var/lib/ganglia 3340 +fi Can I suggest as an update,