Re: networking - fail2ban will not start on some installs (x64)

[sguazt <marco.guazzone@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Cristian Sava <csava@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 09:48 +0300, Cristian Sava wrote:
> On installs where iface reported by "route" command is not the same with
> ifcfg-iface (pxpy instead of enpxsy or ethx) fail2ban will not start.
> Does not matter if biosdevname=0 or net.ifnames=0 on the kernel line.
> Tested this on real hardware and on VirualBox too.
>
> >From /var/log/messages:
> fail2ban-client[2804]: ERROR  Directory /var/run/fail2ban exists but not accessible for writing
>
> Fail2ban is ok on any other install.

I forgot to add that is about F19 installs.

C.Sava

Hello,

Similar problem here on a F19 x86_64.

$ systemctl status fail2ban

fail2ban.service - Fail2ban Service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Tue 2013-07-09 08:59:40 CEST; 45min ago
  Process: 1024 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fail2ban-client -x start (code=exited, status=255)

Jul 09 08:59:40 wildcat systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255
Jul 09 08:59:40 wildcat systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2ban Service.
Jul 09 08:59:40 wildcat systemd[1]: Unit fail2ban.service entered failed state.
Jul 09 08:59:40 wildcat systemd[1]: fail2ban.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 09 08:59:40 wildcat systemd[1]: Stopping Fail2ban Service...
Jul 09 08:59:40 wildcat systemd[1]: Starting Fail2ban Service...
Jul 09 08:59:40 wildcat systemd[1]: fail2ban.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Jul 09 08:59:40 wildcat systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2ban Service.
Jul 09 08:59:40 wildcat systemd[1]: Unit fail2ban.service entered failed state.

$ less /var/log/messages
Jul  9 08:59:39 localhost fail2ban-client[1024]: ERROR  Directory /var/run/fail2ban exists but not accessible for writing
Jul  9 08:59:40 localhost systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255
Jul  9 08:59:40 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2ban Service.
Jul  9 08:59:40 localhost systemd[1]: Unit fail2ban.service entered failed state.
...
Jul  9 08:59:40 localhost systemd[1]: fail2ban.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jul  9 08:59:40 localhost systemd[1]: Stopping Fail2ban Service...
Jul  9 08:59:40 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Fail2ban Service...
Jul  9 08:59:40 localhost systemd[1]: fail2ban.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Jul  9 08:59:40 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2ban Service.
Jul  9 08:59:40 localhost systemd[1]: Unit fail2ban.service entered failed state.

-- Marco

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