[PKG-IRC-Maintainers] Bug#710283: inspircd: Starting Inspircd fails on writing to PID file

[Tim Gouma]

Package: inspircd
Version: 2.0.5-1+b1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable

After configuration Inspircd always fails to start with the following error in /var/log/inspircd.log
"Wed May 29 16:33:24 2013: Failed to write PID-file 'data/inspircd.pid', exiting." But in the config file the pid file location is configured as /var/run/inspircd.pid

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages inspircd depends on:
ii  libc6             2.13-38
ii  libgcc1           1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgeoip1         1.4.8+dfsg-3
ii  libgnutls26       2.12.20-6
ii  libldap-2.4-2     2.4.31-1+nmu2
ii  libmysqlclient18  5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1
ii  libpcre3          1:8.30-5
ii  libpq5            9.2.4-1.pgdg70+1
ii  libsqlite3-0      3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libstdc++6        4.7.2-5
ii  libtre5           0.8.0-3
ii  lsb-base          4.1+Debian8
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

inspircd recommends no packages.

Versions of packages inspircd suggests:
pn  gnutls-bin    <none>
pn  ldap-server   <none>
pn  mysql-server  <none>
pn  postgresql    <none>
pn  sqlite3       <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/inspircd changed:
INSPIRCD_ENABLED=1

/etc/inspircd/inspircd.conf changed:
<pid file="/var/run/inspircd.pid" />
----- Cut Irrelevant Parts of Config file -----

-- no debconf information