[Bug 316335] [NEW] lldpd fails after reboot: /var/run/lldpd created in postinst, not by initscript

[David McBride]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: lldpd

Greetings,

The lldpd package creates /var/run/lldpd -- which lldpd uses as a
chroot() jail -- in the postinst script.

However, /var/run on modern systems is a tmpfs which is dynamically
generated at boot-time:  this directory is not preserved over reboots.
As a result, lldpd will fail to run after a reboot, because
/var/run/lldpd does not exist.

The correct fix is to create the /var/run/lldpd directory as necessary
as part of the start() branch of the init.d script, rather than creating
it just once in the package postinst script.

(This seems to be a not-uncommon bug.  Is there a lintian rule for
catching this kind of error?)

Cheers,
David

** Affects: lldpd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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lldpd fails after reboot: /var/run/lldpd created in postinst, not by initscript
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