[JIRA] (OVIRT-630) postgresql fails to start on some EL7 jenkins slaves

Evgheni Dereveanchin created OVIRT-630: ------------------------------------------ Summary: postgresql fails to start on some EL7 jenkins slaves Key: OVIRT-630 URL: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-630 Project: oVirt - virtualization made easy Issue Type: Bug Components: General Reporter: Evgheni Dereveanchin Assignee: infra On several servers I've seen failures to start postgres after VM reboot: {quote}# systemctl status postgresql ● postgresql.service - PostgreSQL database server Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/postgresql.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-07-12 15:40:46 UTC; 15min ago Jul 12 15:40:45 el7-vm05 systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL database server... Jul 12 15:40:45 el7-vm05 pg_ctl[6237]: 2016-07-12 15:40:45 UTC FATAL: could not create lock file "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": No such file or directory Jul 12 15:40:46 el7-vm05 pg_ctl[6237]: pg_ctl: could not start server Jul 12 15:40:46 el7-vm05 systemd[1]: postgresql.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Jul 12 15:40:46 el7-vm05 systemd[1]: Failed to start PostgreSQL database server. Jul 12 15:40:46 el7-vm05 systemd[1]: Unit postgresql.service entered failed state. Jul 12 15:40:46 el7-vm05 systemd[1]: postgresql.service failed.{quote} the temporary directory does not exist: {quote}# ls -l /var/run/postgresql/ ls: cannot access /var/run/postgresql/: No such file or directory # rpm -V postgresql-server missing /var/run/postgresql # rpm -q postgresql-server postgresql-server-9.2.15-1.el7_2.x86_64{quote} It is defined in systemd configs however: {quote}# cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/postgresql.conf d /var/run/postgresql 0755 postgres postgres - {quote} We need to identify why systemd does not create this directory as it requires manual work to bring such VM up. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v1000.141.2#100004)