[Tts-project] Bug#956037: speech-dispatcher: Init script fails with "ln: failed to create symbolic link"

[Bob Ham]

Package: speech-dispatcher
Version: 0.9.0-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Starting speech-dispatcher using the SysV init script errors out with:

rah at lotus:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start
[....] Starting Speech Dispatcher: speech-dispatcherln: failed to create symbolic link '/var/run/speech-dispatcher/.cache/speech-dispatcher/log': No such file or directory
rah at lotus:~$

Looking at the script, the creation of the LOGDIR2

  LOGDIR2=$PIDDIR/.cache/speech-dispatcher/log
  [ -e $LOGDIR2 ] || ln -s /var/log/speech-dispatcher $LOGDIR2

fails because the $PIDDIR/.cache/speech-dispatcher directory doesn't
exist.

Regards,

Bob Ham


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (991, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable'), (70, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-linux-latest-31 (SMP w/16 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher depends on:
ii  adduser                          3.118
ii  init-system-helpers              1.56+nmu1
ii  libc6                            2.28-10
ii  libdotconf0                      1.3-0.3
ii  libglib2.0-0                     2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii  libltdl7                         2.4.6-9
ii  libsndfile1                      1.0.28-6
ii  libspeechd2                      0.9.0-5
ii  lsb-base                         10.2019051400
ii  speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins  0.9.0-5

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher recommends:
pn  pulseaudio                   <none>
ii  sound-icons                  0.1-6
ii  speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng  0.9.0-5

Versions of packages speech-dispatcher suggests:
pn  espeak                      <none>
pn  libttspico-utils            <none>
pn  mbrola                      <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-cicero    <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-doc-cs    <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-espeak    <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-festival  <none>
pn  speech-dispatcher-flite     <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information