Ubuntu
akonadi package

akonadi does not start if home dir is linked somewhere

Bug #730323 reported by Gunni on 2011-03-06

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	akonadi (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apparmor

My home dir is linked to a different disk. If apparmor is started akonadi fails to start with the attached errors.
After some help in IRC we found the reason, that my home dir is a link to my ssd.

Adding following line to /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld-akonadi :
/ssdhome/gunni/.local/share/akonadi/** rwk,

Does fix the error for me.

Some more infos:
gunni@server:/home$ ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2011-01-28 00:47 gunni -> /ssdhome/gunni/
gunni@server:/home$ ls -l /ssdhome/
drwxrwxrwx 83 gunni gunni 4096 2011-03-06 23:15 gunni
gunni@server:/home$ echo $HOME
/home/gunni

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Gunni (fgunni) wrote on 2011-03-06:

Akonadi errors on terminal Edit (11.4 KiB, text/plain)

Philip Muškovac (yofel) on 2011-03-06

tags:

added: natty

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Gunni (fgunni) wrote on 2011-03-06:

Forgot the versions. I am running Natty since two days:

gunni@server:/home$ apt-cache policy akonadi-server
akonadi-server:
Installiert: 1.5.0-0ubuntu2
Kandidat: 1.5.0-0ubuntu2

gunni@server:/home$ apt-cache policy apparmor
apparmor:
Installiert: 2.6.0-0ubuntu2
Kandidat: 2.6.0-0ubuntu2

Felix Geyer (debfx) on 2011-03-07

affects:

apparmor (Ubuntu) → akonadi (Ubuntu)

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Gunni (fgunni) wrote on 2011-03-07:

Additional comment: If apparmor is stopped with "sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor teardown" akonadi also starts working.

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Felix Geyer (debfx) wrote on 2011-03-07:

You need to add /ssdhome to apparmor's home dir locations.
You can do that by executing: sudo dpkg-reconfigure apparmor

Though I recommend that you directly mount the ssd partition to /home.

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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote on 2011-03-08:

Gunni: please do not recommend using teardown, as it disables apparmor protections for all applications that are currently confined. Use aa-complain(1) or aa-disable(1) (natty and later) to disable apparmor restrictions on a specific application (e.g. sudo aa-complain /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi).

As Felix Geyer said, use "sudo dpkg-reconfigure apparmor" to configure apparmor to know about additional home directory locations. Closing as not a bug.