Bug 123930 – hlds init script not shutting down server

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Adam Bowers 2006-02-24 06:39:54 UTC]

The rc script to shutdown the HLDS server does not seem to work.  It is not writing a pid to /var/run/hlds.pid

Steps to reproduce

/etc/init.d/hlds start 
* Stopping Halflife Dedicated Server ...

/etc/init.d/hlds stop
 * Stopping Halflife Dedicated Server ...
No process in pidfile `/var/run/hlds.pid' found running; none killed.                                                                  [ !! ]


Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 acpi apache2 apm bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cdr crypt cups dvd expat fbcon ftp gdbm gpm hal libwww mmx mp3 ncurses nls nptl pam perl python readline samba slp snmp sse ssl svga sysvipc tiff udev usb xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Adam Bowers 2006-02-24 06:44:21 UTC]

re-worded the summary to better describe the bug

[Comment 2 Matthew Howle 2006-07-13 15:39:18 UTC]

Can you post your /etc/conf.d/hlds?

[Comment 3 Matthew Howle 2006-07-13 15:58:26 UTC]

If /var/run/hlds.pid doesn't exist, you need to create it by "touch /var/run/hlds.pid" and then "chown games:games /var/run/hlds.pid". 

I was thinking you had the same problem as I had.  I was using "HLDS_MT=hlds_run" instead of "HLDS_MT=hlds_i686", which will correctly kill the process when stopped.

[Comment 4 Tristan Heaven (RETIRED) 2006-09-27 03:53:43 UTC]

*** Bug 134445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Ryan Holt 2006-11-05 22:32:25 UTC]

It would appear that whenever you run /etc/init.d/hlds stop it will remove the /var/run/hlds.pid file altogether; it doesn't just empty it. So when you try to restart the server there's no file (/var/run/hlds.pid) for it to place it's current process in.

[Comment 6 Tristan Heaven (RETIRED) 2007-02-27 05:34:07 UTC]

*** Bug 168514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Bjoern Olausson 2007-02-27 10:28:08 UTC]

Just add the -m otion to start-stop-deamon and it works.

See here for details http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168514

Regards
Bjoern

[Comment 8 Sergey Belyashov 2007-09-26 17:57:38 UTC]

Created attachment 131964 [details, diff]
patch for multiserver init scripts

I add to init script possibility run multiserver configuration.
This patch is applicable to files in portage tree (hlds.rc and hlds.confd).

[Comment 9 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-10-05 09:14:15 UTC]

well, I don't know if anyone's still using this but it's in there...