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and subject line Re: Bug#1120894: redmine: dpkg-reconfigure/upgrade redmine
recreates /usr/share/redmine/plugins
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regarding redmine: dpkg-reconfigure/upgrade redmine recreates
/usr/share/redmine/plugins
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1120894: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1120894
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: redmine
Version: 6.0.5+ds-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I have an issue wtaht if I symlink /usr/share/redmine/plugins/<x> to
REDMINE_INSTANCE/plugins
my redmine app cannot start because it loads each plugins file twice and rails
Concern abort if loaded
more than once (and I have a rails concerned derivative in the
redmine_gitolite_plugin I use.
So I wanted to use the recommended by redmine Debian README way to use
/usr/share/redmine/plugins directly.
THat is delete REDMIEN/INSTANCE/plugins folder. It works. My plugins loads fine.
But each time I do `dpkg-reconfigure redmine` or I believe if redmine upgrades
the REDMINE_INSTANCE/plugins
directory is recreated.
The directory REDMINE_INSTANCE/plugins is recreated by
`/usr/share/redmine/bin/redmine-instances create default`
called by redmine.postinst.
Maybe it shouldn't if the a marker that tells the REDMINE_INSTANCE folder tree
has already been created is set?
Best regards,
Alban
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (500,
'oldstable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-37-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages redmine depends on:
ii dbconfig-common 2.0.25
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii libjs-chart.js 3.9.1+~cs3.1.2-3
ii libjs-jquery 3.6.1+dfsg+~3.5.14-1
ii libjs-jquery-ui 1.13.2+dfsg-1
ii libjs-raphael 2.3.0-4
ii puma 6.6.0-4
ii redmine-pgsql 6.0.5+ds-1
ii ruby 1:3.3+b1
ii ruby-actionpack-action-caching 1.2.2-4
ii ruby-actionpack-xml-parser 2.0.1-5
ii ruby-addressable 2.8.7-2
ii ruby-bundler 2.6.7-2
ii ruby-capybara 3.40.0+ds-2
ii ruby-coderay 1.1.3-8
ii ruby-commonmarker 0.23.10-1+b3
ii ruby-csv 3.3.4-1
ii ruby-html-pipeline 2.14.3-2
ii ruby-i18n 1.14.7-1
ii ruby-jquery-rails 4.3.5-5
ii ruby-listen 3.9.0-1
ii ruby-mail 2.8.1+dfsg1-2
ii ruby-marcel 1.0.4+dfsg-2
ii ruby-mini-magick 5.2.0-1
ii ruby-mini-mime 1.1.5-1
ii ruby-mocha 2.4.2-2
ii ruby-net-ldap 0.19.0-1
ii ruby-nokogiri 1.18.2+dfsg-1+b1
ii ruby-rack 3.1.18-1~deb13u1
ii ruby-rails 2:7.2.2.1+dfsg-7
ii ruby-rails-dom-testing 2.2.0-1
ii ruby-rails-observers 0.1.5-1.1
ii ruby-rails-propshaft 1.1.0-3
ii ruby-rbpdf 1.21.3+dfsg-1
ii ruby-redcarpet 3.6.0-1+b5
ii ruby-rmagick 6.0.1-3
ii ruby-roadie 5.2.1-2
ii ruby-roadie-rails 3.3.0-2
ii ruby-rotp 6.2.0-2
ii ruby-rouge 4.5.1-1
ii ruby-rqrcode 2.2.0-1
ii ruby-sanitize 7.0.0-1
ii ruby-selenium-webdriver 4.4.0-1
ii ruby-simplecov 0.22.0-2
ii ruby-task-list 2.3.2-2
ii ruby-zip 2.3.2-1
Versions of packages redmine recommends:
pn passenger <none>
Versions of packages redmine suggests:
pn apache2 <none>
ii brz [bzr] 3.3.11-1
ii bzr 2.7.0+bzr6622+brz
pn cvs <none>
pn darcs <none>
ii git 1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1
pn libapache2-mod-passenger <none>
ii mercurial 7.0.1-2
ii subversion 1.14.5-3
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/redmine changed:
REDMINE_INSTANCES_OWNERSHIP=redmine:www-data
REDMINE_INSTANCES_FOLLOW_FHS=yes
REDMINE_INSTANCES_ROOT=/var/lib/redmine
-- debconf information:
redmine/old-instances:
* redmine/instances/default/pgsql/authmethod-user: password
redmine/default-language: en
redmine/instances/default/remote/newhost: localhost
* redmine/instances/default/mysql/admin-user: debian-sys-maint
redmine/instances/default/install-error: abort
redmine/instances/default/pgsql/no-empty-passwords:
* redmine/instances/default/remote/host: localhost
redmine/instances/default/passwords-do-not-match:
redmine/instances/default/internal/skip-preseed: false
redmine/instances/default/upgrade-error: abort
redmine/instances/default/remove-error: abort
redmine/notify-migration:
redmine/missing-redmine-package:
* redmine/instances/default/database-type: pgsql
redmine/instances/default/dbconfig-remove:
* redmine/instances/default/db/dbname: redmine_default
* redmine/current-instances: default
redmine/instances/default/pgsql/manualconf:
* redmine/instances/default/dbconfig-reinstall: false
redmine/instances/default/upgrade-backup: true
* redmine/instances/default/remote/port: 3306
* redmine/instances/default/pgsql/method: TCP/IP
redmine/instances/default/purge: false
redmine/instances/default/pgsql/changeconf: false
* redmine/instances/default/db/app-user: redmine_default@localhost
redmine/instances/default/dbconfig-upgrade: true
* redmine/instances/default/default-language: en
redmine/instances/default/missing-db-package-error: abort
redmine/instances/default/db/basepath:
* redmine/instances/default/pgsql/admin-user: debian-sys-maint
redmine/instances/default/internal/reconfiguring: false
* redmine/instances/default/dbconfig-install: true
* redmine/instances/default/pgsql/authmethod-admin: ident
redmine/instances/default/mysql/method: Unix socket
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
I m closing this bug report. I will open another for the duplicate
plugin files loaded when symlinking /usr/share/redmine/plugins/<x>
into /var/lib/redmine/default/plugins.
Le lundi 17 novembre 2025 à 20:32 -0700, Soren Stoutner a écrit :
> On Monday, November 17, 2025 7:49:52 PM Mountain Standard Time Alban
> Browaeys
> wrote:
> > I meant:
> > rmdir /var/lib/redmine/default/plugin
> > is the way advertised by the Debian README to have
> > /usr/share/redmine/plugins activated when one do not want to use
> > symlinks from /usr/share/redmine/plugins/ to
> > /var/lib/redmine/default/plugins.
>
> The text of README.Debian has changed a bit from the version in
> 6.0.5+ds-1 to
> the current text, which reads:
>
> Plugins will be loaded from
> /var/lib/redmine/instances/$REDMINE_INSTANCE/plugins/. If this
> directory does
> not exist, loading will fall back to the global plugins directory at
> /usr/share/redmine/plugins/. The
> /var/lib/redmine/instances/$REDMINE_INSTANCE/plugins/ directory is
> automatically
> created each time Redmine is upgraded. To enable a plugin for an
> instance it
> can be symlinked from the global plugins driectory.
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/redmine/6.0.6%2Bds-2/debian/README.Debian
>
> Hopefully, this is a bit more express.
>
> > Fact is I cannot use symlinks from /usr/share/redmine/plugins/<x>
> > to
> > /var/lib/redmine/default/plugins because it crashes rails loading.
> > THis
> > is another bug.
> > In the meantime I can workaround this issue by switching removing
> > the
> > /var/lib/redmine/default/plugins directory as advertised by the
> > Debian
> > README to have /usr/share/plugins fallback to work.
>
> That should be a bug that you file, as that is not behavior I have
> noticed.
> We should get to the bottom of why that is happening.
>
> > But /usr/share/redmine/bin/redmine-instances called on each
> > upgrades/dpkg-reconfigure of redmine by redmine.postinst recreate
> > teh
> > deleted /var/lib/redmine/default/plugins directory (with an empty
> > folder) thus the fallback to /usr/share/redmine/plugins is disabled
> > and
> > I have no plugins anymore.
>
> As stated in the README text above, that is the expected behavior,
> which is
> why it is not the recommended way of handling plugins, although it is
> possible
> if you want to manually re-delete it after every upgrade.
>
OK so indeed that is the expected behavior, but you might want to
backport this doc fixup to stable (ie trixie). But maybe 6.0.6+ds-2is
targeted to reach stable thus the doc issue is already fixed.
The fallback not surviving an upgrade is unfortunate but so be it.
> > I plan to bug report the symlinks to
> > /var/lib/redmine/default/plugins
> > from /usr/share/redmine/plugins/<x> breaks in a later bug report
> > once I
> > have redmine at least back on track with the fallback to
> > /usr/share/redmine/plugins (this is my local prod redmine
> > instance).
> > Fact is currently I get redmine to work but it will breaks on each
> > redmine upgrades.
>
> I think that is a good idea. You can either create a new bug report
> or
> retitle this one.
>
> > ie unircorn errors out this way when I use symlinks (same for `sudo
> > -u
> > www-data REDMINE_INSTANCE=default rackup -E production`)
>
> I am not familiar with Unicorn. In your other bug report (or this
> one if you
> retitle) you might want to provide some background on how it works
> and the
> configuration options you are using.
>
I doubt unicorn matters there (though probably my unstandard
/usr/share/redmine/instances being a directory containing a default
symlink to /var/lib/redmine/default does). This as as I reported I have
the exact same issue with `rackup` when I spawn a test webserver.
> > Note that I have /usr/share/redmine/instances/default a symlink to
> > /var/lib/redmine/default. I don't know if it is vanilla. If I
> > remove
> > this symlink and dpkg-reconfigure or reinstall redmine a broken
> > nearly
> > empty (out of a log file) /usr/share/redmine/instances/default
> > directory is created and redmine bundler errors out (because
> > /usr/share/redmine/Gemfile
> > `Dir['/usr/share/redmine/{config,instances/*/config}/database.yml']
> > .sel
> > ect do |f| `
> > and there is not
> > /usr/share/redmine/instances/default/config/database.yml because
> > /usr/share/redmine/instances/default is nearly empty).
> > It seems /usr/share/redmine/instances/default empty folder is
> > created
> > by redmine.postinst rake db:migrate.
>
> I don’t think that is a standard configuration.
> /usr/share/redmine/instances
> should be a symlink to /var/lib/redmine as shown in my original
> email, but
> inside of that "default" is not typically a symlink.
>
I don't know how I got that nonstandard setup of
/usr/share/redmine/instances. I even tried moving this folder away but
I had the same duplicate plugins files loaded and error.
So I reverted it.
Indeed now when remove /usr/share/redmine/instances and apt install --
reinstall redmine I get the /usr/share/redmine/instances symlink to
/var/lib/redmine. But thte duplicate plugin file loaded error is still
there.
phn@uruk:/var/lib/redmine/default/plugins$ tail -f
/var/log/redmine/default/unicorn.stderr.log
I, [2025-11-18T05:03:49.677259 #1349] INFO -- : Refreshing Gem list
I, [2025-11-18T05:04:21.183680 #1349] INFO -- : unlinking existing
socket=/var/cache/redmine/default/sockets/redmine.socket
I, [2025-11-18T05:04:21.185348 #1349] INFO -- : listening on
addr=/var/cache/redmine/default/sockets/redmine.socket fd=8
I, [2025-11-18T05:04:21.186670 #1349] INFO -- : listening on
addr=127.0.0.1:18083 fd=9
I, [2025-11-18T05:04:21.216671 #1349] INFO -- : master process ready
I, [2025-11-18T05:04:21.272917 #1360] INFO -- : worker=0 ready
sh: 1: gs: not found
I, [2025-11-18T05:05:04.294631 #1349] INFO -- : reaped #<Process::Status: pid
1360 exit 0> worker=0
I, [2025-11-18T05:05:04.295004 #1349] INFO -- : master complete
I, [2025-11-18T05:05:05.469626 #1434] INFO -- : Refreshing Gem list
/usr/share/redmine/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/file_logger.rb:7:
warning: already initialized constant RedmineGitHosting::FileLogger::LOG_LEVELS
/usr/share/redmine/instances/default/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/file_logger.rb:7:
warning: previous definition of LOG_LEVELS was here
/usr/share/redmine/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/git_access.rb:5:
warning: already initialized constant
RedmineGitHosting::GitAccess::DOWNLOAD_COMMANDS
/usr/share/redmine/instances/default/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/git_access.rb:5:
warning: previous definition of DOWNLOAD_COMMANDS was here
/usr/share/redmine/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/git_access.rb:6:
warning: already initialized constant
RedmineGitHosting::GitAccess::PUSH_COMMANDS
/usr/share/redmine/instances/default/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/git_access.rb:6:
warning: previous definition of PUSH_COMMANDS was here
/usr/share/redmine/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/mirror_keys_installer.rb:7:
warning: already initialized constant
RedmineGitHosting::MirrorKeysInstaller::GITOLITE_MIRRORING_KEYS_NAME
/usr/share/redmine/instances/default/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/mirror_keys_installer.rb:7:
warning: previous definition of GITOLITE_MIRRORING_KEYS_NAME was here
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/concern.rb:162:in
`included': Cannot define multiple 'included' blocks for a Concern
(ActiveSupport::Concern::MultipleIncludedBlocks)
from
/usr/share/redmine/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/patches/dashboard_content_project_patch.rb:8:in
`<module:DashboardContentProjectPatch>'
from
/usr/share/redmine/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/patches/dashboard_content_project_patch.rb:5:in
`<module:Patches>'
from
/usr/share/redmine/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/patches/dashboard_content_project_patch.rb:4:in
`<module:RedmineGitHosting>'
from
/usr/share/redmine/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/patches/dashboard_content_project_patch.rb:3:in
`<top (required)>'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/bundled_gems.rb:69:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/bundled_gems.rb:69:in `block (2 levels) in
replace_require'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/zeitwerk-2.6.8/lib/zeitwerk/kernel.rb:38:in
`require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/polyglot.rb:65:in `require'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/dependencies/require_dependency.rb:21:in
`require_dependency'
from
/usr/share/redmine/instances/default/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/redmine_plugin_loader.rb:127:in
`block in autoload_libs!'
from
/usr/share/redmine/instances/default/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/redmine_plugin_loader.rb:126:in
`each'
from
/usr/share/redmine/instances/default/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/redmine_plugin_loader.rb:126:in
`autoload_libs!'
from
/usr/share/redmine/instances/default/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/lib/redmine_git_hosting/redmine_plugin_loader.rb:96:in
`load_plugin!'
from
/usr/share/redmine/instances/default/plugins/redmine_git_hosting/init.rb:72:in
`<top (required)>'
from /usr/share/redmine/lib/redmine/plugin_loader.rb:31:in `load'
from /usr/share/redmine/lib/redmine/plugin_loader.rb:31:in
`run_initializer'
from /usr/share/redmine/lib/redmine/plugin_loader.rb:67:in `each'
from /usr/share/redmine/lib/redmine/plugin_loader.rb:67:in `block in
load'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:407:in
`instance_exec'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:407:in
`block in make_lambda'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:179:in
`block in call'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:668:in
`block (2 levels) in default_terminator'
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/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:667:in
`catch'
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/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:667:in
`block in default_terminator'
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/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:180:in
`call'
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/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:559:in
`block in invoke_before'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:559:in
`each'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:559:in
`invoke_before'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:109:in
`run_callbacks'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/reloader.rb:96:in
`prepare!'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-7.2.2.1/lib/rails/application/finisher.rb:74:in
`block in <module:Finisher>'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-7.2.2.1/lib/rails/initializable.rb:32:in
`instance_exec'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-7.2.2.1/lib/rails/initializable.rb:32:in
`run'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-7.2.2.1/lib/rails/initializable.rb:61:in
`block in run_initializers'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/tsort.rb:231:in `block in tsort_each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/tsort.rb:353:in `block (2 levels) in
each_strongly_connected_component'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/tsort.rb:434:in
`each_strongly_connected_component_from'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/tsort.rb:352:in `block in
each_strongly_connected_component'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/tsort.rb:350:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/tsort.rb:350:in `call'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/tsort.rb:350:in
`each_strongly_connected_component'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/tsort.rb:229:in `tsort_each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/3.3.0/tsort.rb:208:in `tsort_each'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-7.2.2.1/lib/rails/initializable.rb:60:in
`run_initializers'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/railties-7.2.2.1/lib/rails/application.rb:435:in
`initialize!'
from /usr/share/redmine/config/environment.rb:16:in `<top (required)>'
from config.ru:4:in `require_relative'
from config.ru:4:in `block in <main>'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/rack-3.1.18/lib/rack/builder.rb:124:in
`instance_eval'
from
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/rack-3.1.18/lib/rack/builder.rb:124:in
`initialize'
from config.ru:1:in `new'
from config.ru:1:in `<main>'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/unicorn.rb:54:in `eval'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/unicorn.rb:54:in `block in builder'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/unicorn/http_server.rb:790:in
`build_app!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/unicorn/http_server.rb:140:in `start'
from /usr/bin/unicorn:129:in `<main>'
The only way I can get redmine to start with a rails Concern derived
class is with the /usr/share/redmine/plugins fallback.
> root:/usr/share/redmine/instances# ls -la
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 6 15:33 .
> drwxr-xr-x 112 root root 4096 Sep 9 18:58 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 6 15:33 default
> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 7367 Oct 6 15:33 Gemfile.lock
>
> Note that, in case it wasn’t clear from my original email, the
> configuration
> that has been tested is symlinking each plugin directory. I have not
> tested
> symlinking the entire parent plugin directory, which one of your
> comments made
> me think perhaps you have tried.
Not that I have a second redmine instance leftover for "test" instance
because I tried to create a second instance while trying to sort out
why my plugins were not loaded. Then I run dpkg-reconfigure redmine
with only default an instance. But the test instance leftovers are
still there.
Best Regards,
Alban
--- End Message ---
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