Bug 18596

Summary:	/var/run/*pid not being cleaned up.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Torgeir Hansen <torgeir>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	pfeifer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Torgeir Hansen 2003-04-01 12:44:07 UTC

My example:
If you use gpm and it or your computer crashes, gpm will just bitch about gpm
running already as a /var/run/gpm.pid exists, /var/run/*pid should be cleaned up
before services are started during boot!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-06 05:16:37 UTC

It will be the case if you try to restart it without rebooting.

Do this test:

  # rc-update del gpm
  # /etc/init.d/gpm stop zap
  # touch /var/run/gpm.pid

Now reboot, and check if /var/run/gpm.pid still exists.  You should
see that it is gone.

The only reason it will be there, is if you have gpm to start at boot,
but it crashes, and the gpm init script did not get a fail status from
gpm, so marked it as started.

Comment 2 Torgeir Hansen 2003-04-06 14:05:49 UTC

as I cannot reproduce it anymore it does appear to be a brainbug (or config-problem) ;]

Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-06 23:32:41 UTC

Gpm was prob started on that reboot, but crashed.  I have some pid checking
that I need to finish and implement, but that is another bug.