Bug 176377

Summary:	www-servers/lighttpd-1.4.15 fails to stop running with fcgi in use
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Eric Brown <eric.brown>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	www-servers Herd (OBSOLETE) <www-servers+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	rane
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Eric Brown 2007-04-28 17:13:57 UTC

For the past several versions of lighttpd, I have noticed that /etc/init.d/lighttpd stop does not actually kill the server processes.  It seems to be related to the use of the fast-cgi configuration options being used, since non-fcgi machines likely do not experience this problem.

The init script reports [OK] when it fails to stop the processes.  The problem can be worked around with killall lighttpd.

It is also probably related to the design of lighttpd, it probably has a controlling process that lies about the status of its startup and shutdown and simply reports OK when it daemonizes or dies (not sure).

This bug also implies that init.d/lighttpd's restart function also would fail.

I suppose a possible solution might be similar to one suggested in this bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112084

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-26 19:38:21 UTC

i can't reproduce the problem, so probably i am doing something wrong. can you please reiterate the exact steps that exhibit the bug?

are you running fastcgi applications using spawn-fcgi? if so, could i perhaps get you to try the spawn-fcgi scripts provided at bug #149467.
thanks

Comment 2 Eric Brown 2007-09-19 23:09:43 UTC

The problem seems to have gone away in newer versions of lighttpd.  I think someone just changed the init script.