424961 - local dependency graphing requires additional symlink

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, defect)

Description

[Tzvi Edelman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080208 Fedora/2.0.0.12-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: bugzilla-3.0.2-2.fc6

setting http://bugs.SITE.com/editparams.cgi?section=dependencygraph webdotbase to /usr/bin/dot, saw lines like the following in /var/log/httpd/bugs.SITE.com-error_log:
  [Tue Mar 25 05:21:09 2008] [error] [client 62.90.16.242] File does not exist: /usr/share/bugzilla/var, referer: http://bugs.SITE.com/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=1157

after poking around, figured out that bugzilla really wanted to get at /var[/lib/bugzilla/data/webdot] from /usr/share/bugzilla, so doing the following symlink as a workaround:
  ln -s /var /usr/share/bugzilla/var
stopped the complaining and allowed the graphing to work.

rpm info
# rpm -qi bugzilla | head -9          
Name        : bugzilla                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 3.0.2                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 2.fc6                         Build Date: Fri Oct 26 11:53:52 2007
Install Date: Sun Mar 16 05:46:40 2008      Build Host: ppc2.fedora.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/Publishing       Source RPM: bugzilla-3.0.2-2.fc6.src.rpm
Size        : 3355061                          License: MPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Fri Oct 26 12:25:08 2007, Key ID 82ed95041ac70ce6
Packager    : Fedora Project <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://www.bugzilla.org/


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://bugs.SITE.com/editparams.cgi?section=dependencygraph webdotbase to /usr/bin/dot, install graphviz rpm, etc.
2. assert dependencies between bugs
3. click on link behind "Show dependency graph": http://bugs.SITE.com/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=1143

Actual Results:  
no diagram displayed

Expected Results:  
diagram displayed

check /var/log/httpd/bugs.SITE.com-error_log for details.

workaround:
  ln -s /var /usr/share/bugzilla/var

perhaps there is a parameter whose value is currently "/usr/share/bugzilla/var" that could be reset to "/var"?

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

This is working fine upstream. This is a bug in the Fedora RPM file. You should report this problem to them as we have nothing to do with the Fedora project.

Comment 2

[Tzvi Edelman]

submitted https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439144, thanks!