Comment 21 for bug 1287624

Hi Chris,

Also please forgive my ignorance in this matter. I am also reading the
online pages on munge just right now.

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Semih Özlem <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> At the moment slurm, munge, sview are all installed. So the problem I was
> encountering seems to be resolved. So thank you. I say seems, only because
> I do not know enough to check everything about them. At least I am able to
> view the manual pages for those three commands.
>
> I have some questions: I gather that munge has something to do with HPCC
> high performance computing clusters. I am working with a laptop, and have
> not been using a computing cluster, at least to my knowledge. In that case
> why would slurm or munge or sview be installed on my system and what other
> programs depend on it? Is a multi core machine capable of emulating an
> HPCC, or would it use resources of an HPCC by connecting over internet?
>
> I am also wondering if there are some tests I could run to check whether
> all those three commands are functioning as they should?
>
> The other question I have is to do with this, I am working on my own on
> learning about open source software and ubuntu, reading things written
> online, and I would like to continue to do so, and might be interested in
> getting to know other people and even trying to involve other people.
> However I am not working under any company. I am a graduate student. I am
> interested in finding employment as well as continuing being involved with
> open source, linux, possibly ubuntu. Who should I contact or get in touch
> with? Do you work for ubuntu? How did you start? How can I get involved?
>
> Semih
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:40 AM, Chris J Arges <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
>> Hello Sami, or anyone else affected,
>>
>> Accepted munge into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be
>> available at
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/munge/0.5.11-3ubuntu0.1 in a few
>> hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
>>
>> Please help us by testing this new package. See
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
>> enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update
>> out to other Ubuntu users.
>>
>> If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
>> mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
>> from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
>> bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
>> verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help
>> us make a better decision.
>>
>> Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in
>> advance!
>>
>> ** Changed in: munge (Ubuntu Xenial)
>> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
>>
>> ** Tags added: verification-needed
>>
>> ** Changed in: munge (Ubuntu Trusty)
>> Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
>> duplicate bug report (1696002).
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287624
>>
>> Title:
>> Munged does not start
>>
>> Status in munge package in Ubuntu:
>> Fix Released
>> Status in munge source package in Trusty:
>> Fix Committed
>> Status in munge source package in Xenial:
>> Fix Committed
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> ===================
>> on 16.04 LTS:
>> $ sudo apt-get install munge
>>
>> (without the fix, the install fails because it attempts to start the
>> service in the package's postinst.)
>>
>> on 14.04 LTS
>> $ sudo apt-get install munge
>> $ sudo /usr/sbin/create-munge-key
>> $ sudo service restart munge
>>
>> (the service restart will fail if unfixed)
>>
>> Regression Potential
>> ====================
>> Patch is from the upstream author of munge, regressions introduced by
>> the patch itself would have been seen there. Test packages were confirmed
>> to address the issue.
>>
>> Original bug report
>> ===================
>> Munge daemon does not start in ubuntu 14.04 beta.
>>
>> sudo service munge start
>> * Starting MUNGE munged
>> [fail]
>> munged: Error: Logfile is insecure: group-writable permissions set on
>> "/var/log"
>>
>> /var/log permissions are (I have not changed them in any way):
>> drwxrwxr-x 13 root syslog 4,0K maali 4 06:40 log
>>
>> However, I can start munge manually by running "sudo munged -f", which
>> runs the daemon despite warnings.
>>
>> ProblemType: Bug
>> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
>> Package: munge 0.5.11-1ubuntu1
>> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2
>> Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
>> ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
>> Architecture: amd64
>> Date: Tue Mar 4 11:30:24 2014
>> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-26 (5 days ago)
>> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64
>> (20140219)
>> SourcePackage: munge
>> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>>
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