Gentoo's apache2 init script seems to have a "funny" problem at my site: Imagine a paranoid Apache-Setup: Here Apache2 is started manually (not listed in rc-update show, below) because Apache's TLS-KeyFile is encrypted by a passphrase, that has to be entered manually. During boot-up: mysql get's startet automatically (rc-update show reports: mysql default) so far so good. Apache is skipped (see above, because of an encrypted TLS-Key), also ok. Starting Apache manually after boot-up and a login into shell as root: "/etc/init.d/apache2 start") the following error is reported: systemX # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting mysql ... * "/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid" is still present and the process is running. * Please stop it "kill 14820" maybe ? Of course, mysql is already running, but that shouldn't be a problem. (?!) ;-) Because of this error Apache2 can not be started directly. First mysql has to be stopped "/etc/init.d/mysql stop" successfully and after that "/etc/init.d/apache2 start" will also start it's previously stopped dependency "mysql". (and /etc/init.d/mysql start && /etc/init.d/apache2 works also fine!) Once this manual procedure has been successfully (apache2 can be started without any error). It is not reproduceable until next reboot. So you probably can not reproduce it by simply log into your system stop mysql and/or apache and start them independently (in any order!). This little "magic" occurs only once - right after bootup. It is reproduceable only by: "shutdown -r now, login, manually execute /etc/init.d/apache2 start" ;-) Just a guess, I haven't investigated in deep: Could it be that, the dependency-resolution-mechanism (a kind of return-codes of init-scripts or so?!) is confused/lost between init-process and the following login shell because these are two independent processes? Never the less, Gentoo rocks! ;-) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. please 2. see 3. above description Actual Results: right after boot-up on first system login (as root) Apache2 init script can not be started manually if mysql has been started by init before. 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i doubt apache has anything to do with it ... once you boot up, if you run `/etc/init.d/mysql status`, does it show a similar error ?
You are so right: during boot-up init.d reports: * Starting mysql (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] Although mysqld is running, "/etc/init.d/mysql status" reports the above error, too. I think the previously described problem (apache/mysql) is is a kind of side-effect regarding my very complex service-setup: - local slapd, local nsswitch.conf configured to use pam_ldap and nss_ldap - local named chrooted The following services do not start up properly: named (chroot) mysql (don't know exactyl why, I think it has to do with not running named) asterisk (depend use mysql) apache2 (depend use mysql) mit-krb5kdc (because default realm is configured in DNS-Zone, and named is not started) mit-krb5kadmin (because kdc has not been started) Any other services startup quite fine. Just one more question: What is the reason named is started first (before any other service?). I thought slapd is more "important", because it resolves the chroot-lookup via nsswitch.conf, to allow named to be started chrooted? slapd is configured using IP addresses only so it does not depend on a working DNS. Just for your information I attach the init.d-output during boot-up (from serial console) into an attachment, so you can see the order the services will be started.
Created attachment 115312 [details] SysV Init output
The issue is with the mysql init script - the one on bug #175783 should fix this.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 175783 ***
