Bug#954453: apache2-utils: apache-htcacheclean.service failed to determine user credentials
Package: apache2-utils
Version: 2.4.41-5
Severity: normal
On doing an upgrade to something, apache-htcacheclean.service was
reloaded unsuccessfully; here is the systemctl status output:
● apache-htcacheclean.service - Disk Cache Cleaning Daemon for Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache-htcacheclean.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2020-03-21 20:35:50 GMT; 1min 23s ago
Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/htcacheclean.html
Process: 987374 ExecStart=/usr/bin/htcacheclean -d $HTCACHECLEAN_DAEMON_INTERVAL -p $HTCACHECLEAN_PATH -l $HTCACHECLEAN_SIZE $HTCACHECLEAN_OPTIONS (code=exited, status=217/USER)
Mar 21 20:35:50 erdos systemd[1]: Starting Disk Cache Cleaning Daemon for Apache HTTP Server...
Mar 21 20:35:50 erdos systemd[987374]: apache-htcacheclean.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
Mar 21 20:35:50 erdos systemd[987374]: apache-htcacheclean.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/htcacheclean: No such process
Mar 21 20:35:50 erdos systemd[1]: apache-htcacheclean.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
Mar 21 20:35:50 erdos systemd[1]: apache-htcacheclean.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 21 20:35:50 erdos systemd[1]: Failed to start Disk Cache Cleaning Daemon for Apache HTTP Server.
The aptitude run immediately leading up to this was:
Setting up apache2 (2.4.41-5) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav.load ...
info: Executing deferred 'a2enconf apache2-doc' for package apache2-doc
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `apache-htcacheclean' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `apache-htcacheclean' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).
Job for apache-htcacheclean.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status apache-htcacheclean.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript apache-htcacheclean, action "restart" failed.
I've no clue why....
Best wishes,
Julian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers stretch
APT policy: (500, 'stretch'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages apache2-utils depends on:
ii libapr1 1.6.5-1+b1
ii libaprutil1 1.6.1-4+b1
ii libc6 2.30-2
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.15-1
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1d-2
apache2-utils recommends no packages.
apache2-utils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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