Bug 47791

Summary:	service crashes confuse RC scripts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Luke <ausqualius>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Luke 2004-04-13 22:59:16 UTC

I have found that if I start a service, kill it manually, and then try to stop it, the system will still think the service is running (/var/lib/init.d/started/servicename still exists). The error occurs in /sbin/runscript.sh, near the bottom of the svc_stop() function (~ line 218)--there is a line there to remark the service as running (apparently to make runlevel changes go more smoothly?) under certain circumstances. I am fairly certain this line should never be executed in the simple case that stopping a service fails.. 

It would also be nice if there were more checks throughout the RC system to make  sure there aren't stale marks lingering in /var/lib/init.d/started.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/gpm start

2. killall gpm

3. /etc/init.d/gpm stop  (obviously fails, but leaves a mark in /var/lib/init.d/started)

4. /etc/init.d/gpm start (fails because of stale mark)



Expected Results:  
/var/lib/init.d/started/gpm should have been removed.

Using baselayout 1.8.6.13


emerge info:

Portage 2.0.50-r5 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0,
2.6.5-gentoo)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="gentoo.mirrors.pair.com"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl aim alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd evo
foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imlib jabber java
joystick jpeg kde ladcca libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn
ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt
quicktime readline samba scanner sdk sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd theora tiff
truetype usb x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv yahoo zlib"

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-04-18 00:34:59 UTC

thats the point of the 'zap' option