Bug 331625 – sci-misc/boinc-6.10.58-r1 : startup script never returns

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Toralf Förster 2010-08-08 09:18:46 UTC]

/etc/init.d/boinc of package sci-misc/boinc-6.10.58 however worked flawlessly.

The process list gives for start script -r1 :

...
 ├─konsole,24042,tfoerste                    
  │   ├─bash,24049
  │   │   └─su,24080,root -
  │   │       └─bash,24083
  │   │           └─runscript.sh,4923 /sbin/runscript.sh /etc/init.d/boinc start
  │   │               └─runscript.sh,4969 /sbin/runscript.sh /etc/init.d/boinc start
  │   │                   └─boinc_client,4970,boinc --allow_remote_gui_rpc
  │   │                       ├─wcg_faah_autodo,4973 -dpf faah15734_ZINC04998428_xEN_3rd_md0772_00.dpf -gpf ZINC04998428

I changed back to the older init.d startup script (fortunately backed up) and it works


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 DaggyStyle 2010-08-08 13:35:07 UTC]

works fine here, can't reproduce it. try emerging it again.

[Comment 2 DaggyStyle 2010-08-09 05:25:42 UTC]

ok, didn't updated my config files.
confirmed here also

[Comment 3 Michael Klapproth 2010-08-10 11:30:14 UTC]

Appending an & at multi-line start-stop-daemon construct is a quick & dirty fix.

[Comment 4 Dell'Aica Valentino 2010-08-12 11:06:32 UTC]

Maybe is related to calling chrt

[Comment 5 chrulri 2010-08-16 20:47:52 UTC]

Confirmed.

Can you please upload the old init file?

[Comment 6 DaggyStyle 2010-08-17 06:39:15 UTC]

Created attachment 243307 [details]
init script

[Comment 7 DaggyStyle 2010-08-17 06:39:55 UTC]

Created attachment 243309 [details]
right one....

don't ask....

[Comment 8 Yuri Sevatz 2010-08-29 21:07:51 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Appending an & at multi-line start-stop-daemon construct is a quick & dirty
> fix.
> 

I actually did a diff of the new and old scripts... the first thing that caught my eye was this:

 	if [ -n "${RC_UNAME}" ]; then
 		PARAMS="--background --stdout '${LOGFILE}' --stderr '${LOGFILE}' -- ${ARGS}"
 	else
-		PARAMS="-- ${ARGS} >> '${LOGFILE}' 2>&1 &"
+		PARAMS="-- ${ARGS} >> '${LOGFILE}' 2>&1"
 	fi


It seems that ampersand is one of the last things that *used* to be appended to the start-top-daemon ... I tried putting it back (as with the old version) and the desired backgrounding immediately returned.

Not sure if this is how we should go about fixing this, but it's definitely an indication of the problem.

[Comment 9 Stefan Bergler 2010-09-10 10:24:23 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Appending an & at multi-line start-stop-daemon construct is a quick & dirty
> > fix.
....
> It seems that ampersand is one of the last things that *used* to be appended to
> the start-top-daemon ... I tried putting it back (as with the old version) and
> the desired backgrounding immediately returned.

Better try to add a "--background" to start-stop-daemon (see man page of start-stop-daemon). This worked out for me and is better then the '&'.

diff -Naur /tmp/boinc.orig /etc/init.d/boinc 
--- /tmp/boinc.orig	2010-09-10 12:18:04.064000836 +0200
+++ /etc/init.d/boinc	2010-09-10 12:16:34.012252292 +0200
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
 		--pidfile "${PIDFILE}" \
 		--chuid "${USER}:${GROUP}" \
 		--nicelevel "${NICELEVEL}" \
+		--background \
 		--exec "${BOINCBIN}" ${PARAMS}
 
 	RESULT=$?

This might be the solution for the ebuild / package ??? ;-)

My boinc version is sci-misc/boinc-6.10.58-r1.

Best Regards,
 Stefan

[Comment 10 Dell'Aica Valentino 2010-09-10 12:02:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > (In reply to comment #3)
> > > Appending an & at multi-line start-stop-daemon construct is a quick & dirty
> > > fix.
> ....
> > It seems that ampersand is one of the last things that *used* to be appended to
> > the start-top-daemon ... I tried putting it back (as with the old version) and
> > the desired backgrounding immediately returned.
> 
> Better try to add a "--background" to start-stop-daemon (see man page of
> start-stop-daemon). This worked out for me and is better then the '&'.
> 
> diff -Naur /tmp/boinc.orig /etc/init.d/boinc 
> --- /tmp/boinc.orig     2010-09-10 12:18:04.064000836 +0200
> +++ /etc/init.d/boinc   2010-09-10 12:16:34.012252292 +0200
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
>                 --pidfile "${PIDFILE}" \
>                 --chuid "${USER}:${GROUP}" \
>                 --nicelevel "${NICELEVEL}" \
> +               --background \
>                 --exec "${BOINCBIN}" ${PARAMS}
> 
>         RESULT=$?
> 
> This might be the solution for the ebuild / package ??? ;-)
> 
> My boinc version is sci-misc/boinc-6.10.58-r1.
> 
> Best Regards,
>  Stefan
> 
Your way work but logfile will miss if you background in start-stop-daemon

[Comment 11 Toralf Förster 2010-10-08 09:31:34 UTC]

Today I accidentally deleted /etc/init./boinc and therefore re-installed boinc-6.10.58-r1 and realized that the current init.de script doesn't start any boinc application. Instead it returns immediately w/o any further action.
Fortunately I had a copy of the old working init.d script.

Now I'm wondering whether sth. is wrong on my system or whether this is a general problem.

[Comment 12 Marcin Mirosław 2011-01-19 10:51:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
>                 --chuid "${USER}:${GROUP}" \
>                 --nicelevel "${NICELEVEL}" \
> +               --background \
>                 --exec "${BOINCBIN}" ${PARAMS}
> 
> This might be the solution for the ebuild / package ??? ;-)

This change allow to finis init script but it seems that boinc doesn't write to logfile (baselayout 1)

[Comment 13 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2011-05-22 09:27:54 UTC]

*** Bug 300169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 14 Rolf Eike Beer 2011-05-22 14:18:11 UTC]

The quick workaround is putting

ARGS="--daemon"

into your /etc/conf.d/boinc.

The correct fix would be to put this into the init script.

[Comment 15 Toralf Förster 2011-05-22 14:35:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #14)
> The quick workaround is putting
> 
> ARGS="--daemon"
> 
> into your /etc/conf.d/boinc.
> 
> The correct fix would be to put this into the init script.

That is not enough (at least with current versin 6.12.26 - you've to add "--" to this line too :

--exec "${BOINCBIN}" -- ${PARAMS}

[Comment 16 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2011-05-23 15:50:21 UTC]

Fixed in 6.12.26-r1