[bug#28021] [PATCH] gnu: Fix memcached service startup.

[Christopher Baines]

Memcached changes to the memcached user from root before writing the PID
file. This means that it must be able to write the PID file as the memcached
user.

To make this work, create the /var/run/memcached directory when the service
starts, make it owned by memcached, and change memcached to write the PID file
to /var/run/memcached/pid.

This wasn't picked up by the system test as the "service running" part was too
permissive, and only failed on an error. Instead, test the response from
calling start-service and check that the PID is a number.

* gnu/services/databases.scm (memcached-activation): New variable.
  (memcached-shepherd-service): Change PID file location.
  (memcached-service-type): Extend the activation-service-type.
* gnu/tests/databases.scm (run-memcached-test)[test]: Change the "service
  running" test to check the response from the shepherd.
---
 gnu/services/databases.scm | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 gnu/tests/databases.scm    | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/services/databases.scm b/gnu/services/databases.scm
index 3b64d0e07..de1f6b841 100644
--- a/gnu/services/databases.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/databases.scm
@@ -216,6 +216,14 @@ and stores the database cluster in @var{data-directory}."
          (home-directory "/var/empty")
          (shell (file-append shadow "/sbin/nologin")))))
 
+(define memcached-activation
+  #~(begin
+      (use-modules (guix build utils))
+      (let ((user (getpwnam "memcached")))
+        (mkdir-p "/var/run/memcached")
+        (chown "/var/run/memcached"
+               (passwd:uid user) (passwd:gid user)))))
+
 (define memcached-shepherd-service
   (match-lambda
     (($ <memcached-configuration> memcached interfaces tcp-port udp-port
@@ -233,11 +241,14 @@ and stores the database cluster in @var{data-directory}."
                           "-p" #$(number->string tcp-port)
                           "-U" #$(number->string udp-port)
                           "--daemon"
-                          "-P" "/var/run/memcached.pid"
+                          ;; Memcached changes to the memcached user prior to
+                          ;; writing the pid file, so write it to a directory
+                          ;; that memcached owns.
+                          "-P" "/var/run/memcached/pid"
                           "-u" "memcached"
                           ,address@hidden)
                         #:log-file "/var/log/memcached"
-                        #:pid-file "/var/run/memcached.pid"))
+                        #:pid-file "/var/run/memcached/pid"))
               (stop #~(make-kill-destructor))))))))
 
 (define memcached-service-type
@@ -245,6 +256,8 @@ and stores the database cluster in @var{data-directory}."
                 (extensions
                  (list (service-extension shepherd-root-service-type
                                           memcached-shepherd-service)
+                       (service-extension activation-service-type
+                                          (const memcached-activation))
                        (service-extension account-service-type
                                           (const %memcached-accounts))))
                 (default-value (memcached-configuration))))
diff --git a/gnu/tests/databases.scm b/gnu/tests/databases.scm
index 310210c36..9d9a75374 100644
--- a/gnu/tests/databases.scm
+++ b/gnu/tests/databases.scm
@@ -63,13 +63,15 @@
           (test-begin "memcached")
 
           ;; Wait for memcached to be up and running.
-          (test-eq "service running"
-            'running!
+          (test-assert "service running"
             (marionette-eval
              '(begin
                 (use-modules (gnu services herd))
-                (start-service 'memcached)
-                'running!)
+                (match (start-service 'memcached)
+                  (#f #f)
+                  (('service response-parts ...)
+                   (match (assq-ref response-parts 'running)
+                     ((pid) (number? pid))))))
              marionette))
 
           (let* ((ai (car (getaddrinfo "localhost"
-- 
2.14.0