Picroft update to 18.8 release 10 lost log directory?

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Hello, I’ve been running MyCroft on a RPi 3 Model B+ for some months with no problems, and today noticed that my release 5 was out of date. So I asked MyCroft to upgrade to release 10, did an orderly restart, and now it fails to start correctly with repeated “ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection…”. Even if I manually recreate /var/log/mycroft, it is now always missing after restart.

pi@vox:/var/log $ mycroft-start all restart
Already up-to-date.
Starting all mycroft-core services
Initializing...
Starting background service bus
CAUTION: The Mycroft bus is an open websocket with no built-in security
         measures.  You are responsible for protecting the local port
         8181 with a firewall as appropriate.
/home/pi/mycroft-core/start-mycroft.sh: line 140: /var/log/mycroft/bus.log: No such file or directory
Starting background service skills
/home/pi/mycroft-core/start-mycroft.sh: line 140: /var/log/mycroft/skills.log: No such file or directory
Starting background service audio
/home/pi/mycroft-core/start-mycroft.sh: line 140: /var/log/mycroft/audio.log: No such file or directory
Starting background service voice
/home/pi/mycroft-core/start-mycroft.sh: line 140: /var/log/mycroft/voice.log: No such file or directory
Starting background service enclosure
/home/pi/mycroft-core/start-mycroft.sh: line 140: /var/log/mycroft/enclosure.log: No such file or directory

What might have happened between releases 5 and 10 so that this would happen on a Raspberry Pi? It was a good bit of effort to get this working in the first place (with Google AIY Voice Kit V1) and so I don’t want to consider a total rebuild.

Many thanks for any suggestions!

watou

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Did the directory/files not exist before?
And when you refer to recreating the directory and it missing, is it just the files or the entire directory that’s gone?

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Two more attempts to manually create the directory /var/log/mycroft and set the permissions

sudo mkdir /var/log/mycroft
sudo chmod o+w /var/log/mycroft

and 18.8 release 10 started correctly. How strange!

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