runit: unable to lock supervise error on debian

Question

I'm trying to set up runit and logging on my debian wheezy VM. So far I've managed to get gunicorn service to start by following this setup:

sudo mkdir /etc/sv/gunicorn
sudo vi /etc/sv/gunicorn/run
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/gunicorn/run /etc/service

My log run file has:

LOG_DIR=/home/$USER/logs/gunicorn/

exec svlogd -tt $LOG_DIR

When I run sudo runsvdir /etc/service/gunicorn

runsv supervise: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure

No idea what I'm doing wrong, any pointers?

Answer 1

In ls -la /etc/service/gunicorn/supervise i didn't see a .lock but there was a lock file. Removing that lock file caused a bit of mayhem.

Thus i got rid of the symlink; killed the pids in ps aux | grep gunicorn and re symlinked. May be the ultimate end, but does get the job done.