Looking at my local deployment (epoxy branch), the permissions I have on the directory differ from yours (see below). We are going to need answers to the above questions to investigate further. If you are building a custom image with tools other than those provided by OpenStack, you may need to correct your image build tooling.
ubuntu@amphora-2cef30ef-f175-4d36-b394-570f6a3e15aa:/var/lib$ ls -lha octavia total 36K drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jan 22 00:47 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4.0K Jan 22 00:46 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 22 00:47 cd88633a-1613-4cac-9a9d-1f81b6ae3952 srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 00:47 cd88633a-1613-4cac-9a9d-1f81b6ae3952.sock drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 22 00:47 certs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Jan 15 22:03 haproxy-default-user-group.conf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 208 Jan 15 22:03 ping-wrapper.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Jan 22 00:47 plugged_interfaces -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Jan 22 00:47 plugged_interfaces.sorted -rw-r----- 1 root root 85 Jan 22 21:10 stats_counters.json ** Changed in: octavia Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2095432 Title: Ping health-monitor does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/octavia/+bug/2095432/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs