[CASSANDRA-15273] cassandra does not start with new systemd version

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Urgent
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.17, 3.0.21, 3.11.7, 4.0-alpha4, 4.0
• Component/s: Packaging
• Bug Category: Code
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: Linux
• Since Version: 0.8 beta 1

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/9105dcd99e61537e8d177b41b7d38c5569412230

Test and Documentation Plan

This will involve testing on an RPM + systemd system.

• Assignee: Michael Semb Wever
• Reporter: Aleksandr Yatskin

Authors

Mike Kelly

Reviewers

Michael Semb Wever

• Created: 12/Aug/19 07:04
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:54
• Resolved: 03/Mar/20 21:55

Description

After update systemd with  fixed vulnerability https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16888, the cassandra service does not start correctly.

Environment: RHEL 7, systemd-219-67.el7_7.1, cassandra-3.11.4-1 (https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/redhat/311x/cassandra-3.11.4-1.noarch.rpm)

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systemctl status cassandra
● cassandra.service - LSB: distributed storage system for structured data
Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/cassandra; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: resources) since Fri 2019-08-09 17:20:26 MSK; 1s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 2414 ExecStop=/etc/rc.d/init.d/cassandra stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 2463 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/cassandra start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1884 (code=exited, status=143)

Aug 09 17:20:23 desktop43.example.com systemd[1]: Unit cassandra.service entered failed state.
Aug 09 17:20:23 desktop43.example.com systemd[1]: cassandra.service failed.
Aug 09 17:20:23 desktop43.example.com systemd[1]: Starting LSB: distributed storage system for structured data...
Aug 09 17:20:23 desktop43.example.com su[2473]: (to cassandra) root on none
Aug 09 17:20:26 desktop43.example.com cassandra[2463]: Starting Cassandra: OK
Aug 09 17:20:26 desktop43.example.com systemd[1]: New main PID 2545 does not belong to service, and PID file is not owned by root. Refusing.
Aug 09 17:20:26 desktop43.example.com systemd[1]: New main PID 2545 does not belong to service, and PID file is not owned by root. Refusing.
Aug 09 17:20:26 desktop43.example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: distributed storage system for structured data.
Aug 09 17:20:26 desktop43.example.com systemd[1]: Unit cassandra.service entered failed state.
Aug 09 17:20:26 desktop43.example.com systemd[1]: cassandra.service failed.

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-13148 Systemd support for RPM