chown: cannot access `/var/run/havp': No such file or directory

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ lsb_release -rd ; uname -a ; apt-cache policy linux linux-image linux-source-2.6.27 linux-headers-generic linux-restricted-modules havp clamav ; hwinfo +all log=hw_log
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
Linux thomas-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 10 03:55:24 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
linux:
  Installed: 2.6.27.7.8
  Candidate: 2.6.27.7.8
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.7.8 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-image:
  Installed: 2.6.27.7.8
  Candidate: 2.6.27.7.8
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.7.8 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-source-2.6.27:
  Installed: 2.6.27-7.10
  Candidate: 2.6.27-7.10
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27-7.10 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-headers-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.27.7.8
  Candidate: 2.6.27.7.8
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.7.8 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-restricted-modules:
  Installed: 2.6.27.7.8
  Candidate: 2.6.27.7.8
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.7.8 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
havp:
  Installed: 0.89-1
  Candidate: 0.89-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.89-1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
clamav:
  Installed: 0.94.dfsg-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.94.dfsg-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.94.dfsg-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

Hi,

sudo apt-get remove havp
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -aup low

has solved the problem.

I run:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -fy --force-yes update ; sudo apt-get -fy --force-yes upgrade ; sudo apt-get -fy --force-yes dist-upgrade ; sudo apt-get -fy --force-yes install ; sudo dpkg --configure -a ; sudo update-manager -c -d ; sudo synaptic

for updating.

Then I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure -aup low for applying everything and then I reboot.

I use priority low because I want to see what everything is good for. I use -u (unseen) to avoid having to reconfigure everything if the command is abrupted like now. I had configured clamav earlier so it did not pop up. Probably having two applications requiring clamav, the virus scanner itself and the proxy thing caused the problem. I am not sure if dropping -u would already circumvent the problem, becuase I could setup clamav again.

This should be easy to reproduce on your machine, although time consuming. If you think it is irrelevant since obvious to most users you should shut this bug down. Alternatively you could mark this confirmed with priority low or as a wish list issue, if it is not really a bug. It may be good to notify the developers, unless it is so obvious that it will provide them with no added info. I can easily perform any actions you like that could give you more insight.

Cheers,

Thomas

clamav package or havp,very minor bug or wish list item. Confirmed since easy to reproduce on any machine.

Not a dpkg issue.

Does var/run/havp in fact exist when this happens?

Hi,

I installed this while running my update command:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -fy --force-yes update ; sudo apt-get -fy --force-yes upgrade ; sudo apt-get -fy --force-yes dist-upgrade ; sudo apt-get -fy --force-yes install ; sudo dpkg --configure -a ; sudo update-manager -c -d ; sudo synaptic
[sudo] password for thomas:
Ign http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation-en_GB
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Translation-en_GB
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_GB
Hit http://archive.canonical.com intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.canonical.com intrepid/partner Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid Release
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/restricted Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/universe Translation-en_GB
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports Release.gpg
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/main Translation-en_GB
Hit http://archive.canonical.com intrepid Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release
Ign http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/restricted Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/universe Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Hit http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed Release.gpg
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed/restricted Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed/main Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed/multiverse Translation-en_GB
Ign http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-proposed/universe Translation-en_GB
Ign http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
Get: 2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release [65.9kB]
Hit http://ddebs.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
Hit http://archive.canonical.com intr...

I have now reinstalled it and will try to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure -aup low again and try to obtain a backtrace. I will start with valgrind since this is the easiest. I mind you that I do not know if this is a really good option, since I do not know that much about linux architecture, scripts, python and perl and such. If you prefer gdb or stacktrace or something, please let me know. Since I did not get a crash report I cannot do a backtrace on CoreDump.

The directory does seem to exist:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ cd /var/run
thomas@thomas-laptop:/var/run$ ls -la
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 860 2008-10-12 16:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2008-07-02 11:34 ..
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 acpid.socket
drwxr-xr-x 2 aptproxy root 60 2008-10-12 15:08 apt-proxy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 atd.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 avahi avahi 100 2008-10-12 15:10 avahi-daemon
drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 60 2008-10-12 15:08 clamav
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2008-10-12 16:30 console
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2008-10-12 16:30 ConsoleKit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 console-kit-daemon.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 crond.pid
---------- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 crond.reboot
drwxr-xr-x 3 root lp 120 2008-10-12 15:08 cups
drwxr-xr-x 2 messagebus messagebus 80 2008-10-12 15:08 dbus
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 debtorrent-client.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2008-10-12 15:08 dhcdbd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 gdm.pid
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 gdm_socket
drwxr-xr-x 2 gsmsms gsmsms 60 2008-10-12 15:08 gsm-utils
drwxr-xr-x 2 haldaemon haldaemon 80 2008-10-12 16:30 hald
drwxr-xr-x 2 havp havp 60 2008-10-12 16:18 havp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1706 2008-10-12 15:08 hotkey-setup
drwxr-xr-x 2 klog klog 100 2008-10-12 15:08 klogd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424 2008-10-12 15:08 motd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2008-10-12 15:10 network
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2008-10-12 15:08 NetworkManager.pid
drwxrwx--- 2 root polkituser 40 2008-10-12 15:08 PolicyKit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:10 ppp0.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2008-10-12 15:08 pppconfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 2008-10-12 15:10 pppd2.tdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 .ramfs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 140 2008-10-12 15:08 samba
drwxrwxr-x 2 root utmp 40 2008-10-12 15:08 screen
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 sdp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 sendsigs.omit
drwxr-xr-x 2 smsd dialout 40 2008-10-12 15:08 smstools
drwx------ 3 root thomas 60 2008-10-12 15:59 sudo
srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 16:23 synaptic.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:...

Ok, this does not work. Option B, gdb.

thomas@thomas-laptop:/var/run$ cd
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get source valgrind
[sudo] password for thomas:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 5811kB of source archives.
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main valgrind 1:3.3.1-2ubuntu1 (dsc) [889B]
Get: 2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main valgrind 1:3.3.1-2ubuntu1 (tar) [5718kB]
30% [2 valgrind 1786685/5718kB 31%]
Get: 3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main valgrind 1:3.3.1-2ubuntu1 (diff) [92.5kB]
Fetched 5811kB in 3min10s (30.5kB/s)
Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in valgrind-3.3.1
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install valgrind
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
valgrind is already the newest version.
valgrind set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep valgrind
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  dpatch patchutils
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/179kB of archives.
After this operation, 631kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package dpatch.
(Reading database ... 193836 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dpatch (from .../archives/dpatch_2.0.29_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package patchutils.
Unpacking patchutils (from .../patchutils_0.2.31-4_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dpatch (2.0.29) ...
Setting up patchutils (0.2.31-4) ...
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -p low valgrind
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure valgrind
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo rm valgrind.log.*
rm: cannot remove `valgrind.log.*': No such file or directory
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo rm valgrind.log
rm: cannot remove `valgrind.log': No such file or directory
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly valgrind -v --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --num-callers=40 --log-file=valgrind.log dpkg-reconfigure -aup low
Can't open perl script "dpkg-reconfigure": No such file or directory
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly valgrind -v --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --num-callers=40 --log-file=valgrind.log sudo dpkg-reconfigure -aup low
==14226==
==14226== Warning: Can't execute setuid/setgid executable: /usr/bin/sudo
==14226== Possible workaround: remove --trace-children=yes, if in effect
==14226==
valgrind: /usr/bin/sudo: Permission denied

This doesn't need a backtrace. Most likely (I haven't checked yet) the
init script assumes /var/run is persistent, but on Ubuntu it's a tempfs.

OK,

thanks Scott. Anyway, the gdb thing does not work either. Maybe the stacktrace would. I will try it out for myself, just to check everything is up to date for when it could be useful. If you need anything else, please let me know.

Thanks,

Thomas

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -p low gdb
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdb
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ gdb <program> 2>&1 | tee gdb-<program>.txt
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `2'
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ gdb dpkg-reconfigure 2>&1 | tee gdb-dpkg-reconfigure.txt
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb)
[1]+ Stopped gdb dpkg-reconfigure 2>&1 | tee gdb-dpkg-reconfigure.txt
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo gdb dpkg-reconfigure 2>&1 | tee gdb-dpkg-reconfigure.txt
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
SIG33 No No Yes Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run -aup low
Starting program: -aup low
No executable file specified.
Use the "file" or "exec-file" command.
(gdb) file
No executable file now.
No symbol file now.
(gdb) file dpkg
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/dpkg...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/dpkg...done.
done.
(gdb) file dpkg-reconfigure
"/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure": not in executable format: File format not recognized
(gdb)
[2]+ Stopped sudo gdb dpkg-reconfigure 2>&1 | tee gdb-dpkg-reconfigure.txt
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ man dpkg-reconfigure

[3]+ Stopped man dpkg-reconfigure
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get source dpkg-reconfigure
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for dpkg-reconfigure
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ ls ~/.xsession-errors
/home/thomas/.xsession-errors
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ ls -la ~/.xsession-errors
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 2196 2008-10-12 15:11 /home/thomas/.xsession-errors
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

None of this has anything to do with havp. You need to seek help/file other
bugs for the other issues.

strace failed too. what is help/file other bugs and where is it located? Anyway, I will stop spamming launchpad now!

Thanks again,

Thomas

No CIDSupplement specified for KochiGothic-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for KochiMincho-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for UMingCN, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Regular, defaulting to 0.
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts
done.
Stopping GSM SMS send daemon: gsmsmsd .
Starting GSM SMS send daemon: gsmsmsd.
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ]
 * Reloading system message bus config... [ OK ]
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ]
Cleaning up /var/spool/havp... done
chown: cannot access `/var/run/havp': No such file or directory
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ msudo apt-get remove havp
bash: msudo: command not found
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ cd /var/run/havp
bash: cd: /var/run/havp: No such file or directory
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ cd /var/run
thomas@thomas-laptop:/var/run$ ls -la
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 900 2008-10-12 22:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2008-07-02 11:34 ..
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 22:01 acpid.socket
drwxr-xr-x 2 aptproxy root 60 2008-10-12 22:02 apt-proxy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 2008-10-12 22:02 atd.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 avahi avahi 100 2008-10-12 22:02 avahi-daemon
drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 60 2008-10-12 22:07 clamav
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2008-10-12 22:45 console
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2008-10-12 22:45 ConsoleKit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 20:20 console-kit-daemon.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 22:08 crond.pid
---------- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 20:21 crond.reboot
drwxr-xr-x 3 root lp 120 2008-10-12 22:08 cups
drwxr-xr-x 2 messagebus messagebus 80 2008-10-12 20:20 dbus
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 22:08 debtorrent-client.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2008-10-12 22:09 dhcdbd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 415 2008-10-12 20:37 dhclient-wlan0.lease
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 20:37 dhclient-wlan0.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 20:21 gdm.pid
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 20:21 gdm_socket
drwxr-xr-x 2 gsmsms gsmsms 60 2008-10-12 20:20 gsm-utils
drwxr-xr-x 2 haldaemon haldaemon 80 2008-10-12 22:45 hald
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1706 2008-10-12 20:20 hotkey-setup
drwxr-xr-x 2 klog klog 100 2008-10-12 20:20 klogd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424 2008-10-12 20:20 motd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2008-10-12 20:37 network
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2008-10-12 20:20 NetworkM...

This is an init script problem as I suspected. To get help with your other problems, see the following for resources:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToGetHelp

This bug was fixed in the package havp - 0.89-1ubuntu1

---------------
havp (0.89-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Add check in havp.init to check if /var/run/havp exists or not and create
    it if it doesn't (LP: #282146)

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:12:20 -0400

We should SRU this for Hardy.

ACK from motu-sru to apply fix from 0.89-1ubuntu1 in Intrepid to Hardy package.

Fix for hardy

Alessio's debdiff sponsored into hardy-proposed. Thanks for your contribution to Ubuntu :)

Accepted into hardy-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

the fix included by Alessio works well :-)

Verification done (x86):

- havp 0.86-1build1 (hardy) /etc/init.d/havp doesn't check if /var/run/havp exists.
- havp 0.86-1ubuntu0.1 (hardy-proposed) /etc/init.d/havp create run directory if it doesn't exists.

Copied to hardy-updates.

I have already remove havp. thanks
JUAN CARLOS TENORIO.