Not able to restart redis on Ubuntu 10.04

[sous-chefs]

Not able to restart redis on Ubuntu 10.04

[brianbianco]

Can I ask which Commit you are using, or which release? Do the redis logs provide any error messages?

[brianbianco]

I suspect the issue could be that redis expects the /var/run/redis directory to exist, and when you reboot a linux machine the directories in /var/run get wiped out. A run of chef client should ensure that directory exists, but that provides a potential race condition. If redis is set to start on boot, it could try to start before chef runs and ensures the pid directory exists.

It is possible I will have to include in the init script a way to enforce the creation of the pid directory.

Most of this is speculation. I will try to reproduce this environment and bug in an ubuntu 10.04 virtual machine.

[Sgoettschkes]

Wow, thank you for the fast response!

I think I have made an error and there is no problem at all with the cookbook or redis. I guess the error was that I tried to stop redis as non-root, leaving the pid file in place and preventing redis from starting up again.

I tried it once more and using sudo it worked without hassle. I'll close this issue and see if it happens again. Sorry for bothering you!

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