Hit the same issue, and read
http://sphinxsearch.com/forum/view.html?id=10783 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sphinxsearch/+bug/990395.
At first I thought it was due to the privileged user (root used instead
of sphinxsearch), but it seems the following isn't run:
[ -n "$DODTIME" ] && sleep $DODTIME
as the restart happens to run in less than one second:
DODTIME=1 # Time to wait for the server to die, in seconds
# If this value is set too low you might not
# let some servers to die gracefully and
# 'restart' will not work
Running the following to simulate the behaviour always works:
service sphinxsearch stop && sleep 1 && service sphinxsearch start
I can see that the code is the same for all Debian releases (from Wheezy
to Sid), so it must be an external change (bash/dash?).
Second restart works because the process is effectively stopped after 1
second at most. If you run:
service sphinxsearch restart; service sphinxsearch restart; service
sphinxsearch restart
you'll have 3 fails (or 2 if the service wasn't working at first).
I'm trying to find out why the sleep isn't run, I'll let you know when I
find it.
--
Yvan.
