run custom init: Failed to spawn homepage main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory

Question

I'm getting an error on my ubuntu 14.04 box, when I run my custom init script in /etc/init/homepage.conf

I'm trying to run it via:

sudo start homepage

I keep getting:

start: Job failed to start

in the logs under /var/log/syslog :

init: Failed to spawn homepage main process: unable to execute: No such file or directory

I tried researching it, but cannot seem to pinpoint why this is happening.

homepage.conf contains:

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

#setuid user
setuid homepage
setgid www-data

env PATH=/home/myuser/venv/bin
chdir /home/jd/venv
exec uwsgi --ini home.ini

home.ini contains:

module = wsgi_prod
master=true
processes=5
socket = homepage.sock
chmod-socket = 660
vacuum = true

die-on-term = true

The permissions for under: /home/myuser/venv are:

 [user]   [group]
homepage:homepage 

Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Thank you.

Answer 1

I struggled with the same problem for awhile, and finally found the issue: The file it can't find is uwsgi . In your upstart conf file (homepage.conf for you), edit the following line:

exec uwsgi --ini home.ini

to be:

exec /usr/local/bin/uwsgi --ini home.ini

or whatever the path to your local uwsgi is. You can figure out the path by running which uwsgi .