[DRE-maint] Bug#846052: passenger-config/status cannot find instance registry

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

Package: passenger
Version: 5.0.30-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have just upgraded to passenger 5, and now I want to restart my
application the 'new' way by using passenger-config. I have tried this
both through capistrano, and on the command line, and I get the
following error message:

   *** ERROR: Phusion Passenger doesn't seem to be running. If you are sure that it
  is running, then the causes of this problem could be one of:

   1. You customized the instance registry directory using Apache's
      PassengerInstanceRegistryDir option, Nginx's
      passenger_instance_registry_dir option, or Phusion Passenger Standalone's
      --instance-registry-dir command line argument. If so, please set the
      environment variable PASSENGER_INSTANCE_REGISTRY_DIR to that directory
      and run this command again.
   2. The instance directory has been removed by an operating system background
      service. Please set a different instance registry directory using Apache's
      PassengerInstanceRegistryDir option, Nginx's passenger_instance_registry_dir
      option, or Phusion Passenger Standalone's --instance-registry-dir command
      line argument.

I have tried both with and without sudo. I can confirm that passenger is indeed
running, and throught lsof I can see that it has open files in a directory in
/tmp that I cannot not in fact see listed there. So to me it looks like option
2 is in fact the case, but I have not tried the instructions there and I would
have expected them not be needed.

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie)
Release:	8.6
Codename:	jessie
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.32-rh33-20161115070633.xenU.i386 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages passenger depends on:
ii  libc6       2.19-18+deb8u6
ii  libcurl3    7.38.0-4+deb8u4
ii  libgcc1     1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgmp10    2:6.0.0+dfsg-6
ii  libruby2.3  2.3.1-6
ii  libstdc++6  6.2.0-13
ii  libuv1      1.9.1-3
ii  ruby        1:2.3.0+4
ii  ruby-rack   1.6.4-4
ii  zlib1g      1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

passenger recommends no packages.

Versions of packages passenger suggests:
ii  nodejs         0.10.29~dfsg-2
pn  passenger-doc  <none>
ii  python         2.7.9-1
pn  rails          <none>

-- no debconf information