Package: yiff-server
Version: 2.14.2-7
Severity: normal
The init.d script for yiff-server does not check if yiff-server started
correctly. Under some circumstances (/dev/dsp being locked by another
application [1]) this might lead to users believeing the server started
up correctly when it did not.
The init.d script should check if the daemon started right after calling
start-stop-daemon and provide a meaningful message if it didn't.
For example, this is what I've been using in some init.d scripts (but
there might be better alternatives if using LSB):
running()
{
# No pidfile, probably no daemon present
#
[ ! -f "$PIDFILE" ] && return 1
pid=`cat $PIDFILE`
# No pid, probably no daemon present
[ -z "$pid" ] && return 1
[ ! -d /proc/$pid ] && return 1
cmd=`cat /proc/$pid/cmdline | tr "\000" "\n"|head -n 1 |cut -d : -f 1`
[ "$cmd" != "$NAME" ] && return 1
return 0
}
And then change the start action to do:
(...)
start-stop-daemon (...)
if running ; then
echo "$NAME."
else
echo "ERROR."
exit 1
fi
Regards
Javier
[1] Happened to me when using Mozilla with the Flash plugin and an audio
application
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=es_ES, LC_CTYPE=es_ES (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages yiff-server depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii liby2-14 2.14.2-7 Y Sound Server Library
yiff-server recommends no packages.
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