As can be seen in bugs #217937 and #217811 it looks like /sbin/start-stop-daemon in sys-apps/openrc has problems with the --pidfile options which in some cases cause the services to appear as crashed in rc-status while they are up and running on the system. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ Timestamp of tree: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config /usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict test unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.vein.hu/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LINGUAS="it" MAKEOPTS="-j14" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://pedroni03/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amd64 ao arts audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dga dio dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif glut gmp gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk guile hal htmlhandbook iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib isdnlog jack java javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal lcms libcaca libsamplerate lm_sensors lua lzo mad maildir matroska memlimit midi mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal openexr opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png portaudio posix ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline recode reflection ruby samba sdl session sharedmem shorten sndfile sockets sox speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink syslog sysvipc tcl tcpd theora threads tidy tiff tk truetype unicode usb vcd vim-syntax vorbis wmf wxwindows x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 virmidi" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="kodak ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Maybe this bug can be made into a nice tracker for start-stop-daemon issues?
I can confirm that start-stop-daemon has sporadical problems with PIDs on random services. My last case is postgres that "did not create a valid PID in `/var/lib/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid'". But it is up-and-running, `ps ax` shows it, Amarok uses it, the PID file is there and filled. Maybe some timing issue during parallel startup? Or some locking problem with multi-process access on file?
Oddly enough, my postgresql install on my server works just fine. Although I haven't turned parallel startup on as there are issues with a few service scripts due to broken dependencies which I haven't gotten around to filing bugs for / fixing yet. I'm also loath to test them as the box is headless and the wife doesn't like me hooking my spare keyboard and monitor up to it :/ Infact a quick look shows that dovecot, postfix and postgresql need the following depends added need localmount after bootmisc As the ex dovecot maintainer, I am virtually kicking myself :P
(In reply to comment #3) > Infact a quick look shows that dovecot, postfix and postgresql need the > following depends added > need localmount > after bootmisc > > As the ex dovecot maintainer, I am virtually kicking myself :P dovecot fixed (all versions). thanks for the headsup!
(In reply to comment #3) > Oddly enough, my postgresql install on my server works just fine. > ... > Infact a quick look shows that dovecot, postfix and postgresql need the > following depends added > need localmount > after bootmisc My postgresql startup fails randomly - I will try extending the depend() of the init.d script.
I did not have this kind of problem until 0.2.4 Now on every boot i get start-stop-daemon : /usr/sbin/hcid died but its up and running normally i think :)
Created attachment 162651 [details, diff] Fixes error message running hcid from /etc/init.d/bluetooth The patch fixes start-stop-daemon error message saying hcid died. The fix forces a non-deamon hcid in the background, which results in a valid return code 0 if hcid has started properly.
Bug summary reinstated as original one, since this bug was NOT hcid specific.
(In reply to comment #8) > Bug summary reinstated as original one, since this bug was NOT hcid specific. No it's not, however each service needs to be fixed so that the PARENT creates the correct and working pidfile for the CHILD before it exits instead of the child creating the pidfile AFTER the parent has exited. A good example of this is ntpd [1]. This is a race condition that is only fixable upstream. As such, a bug per package should be created and dealt with individually, so this bug should be re-titled to be hcid specific. [1] https://support.ntp.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=794
converted this to a tracker.
Not sure if this is still needed :/
Looks fixed now
