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 on a machine, then install ganglia-monitor, the
later will set the ownership of /var/lib/ganglia/rrds to ganglia.

I'm assuming the ownership issue which gmetad has, is a security
feature, as it most likely does a chroot jail with, and doesn't want any
potential hacker to be able to create files.  Changing that, is not the
answer.

So the issue is that ganglia-monitor should either leave the rrds
directory alone, or set it to owned by nobody.

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  gmetad doesn't start after installation of ganglia-monitor (gmond)

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