Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.16 Severity: normal Hi,
this is an strace of $ start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid --oknodo --retry 30 --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/exim4 stat64("/usr/sbin/exim4", {st_mode=S_IFREG|S_ISUID|0755, st_size=680428, ...}) = 0 open("/var/run/exim4/exim.pid", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f82000 read(3, "29186\n", 4096) = 6 readlink("/proc/29186/exe", "/mnt/usr/usr/sbi", 16) = 16 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb7f82000, 4096) = 0 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 3), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f82000 write(1, "No /usr/sbin/exim4 found running"..., 47No /usr/sbin/exim4 found running; none killed. ) = 47 munmap(0xb7f82000, 4096) = 0 exit_group(0) = ? $ pstree -apl 29186 exim4,29186 -bd -q30m I suspect that start-stop-daemon doesn't consider /mnt/usr/usr/sbin/exim4 identical to /usr/sbin/exim4 (/usr is a symlink here) and thus refrains from signalling the daemon. This is a bug, and start-stop-daemon should correctly handle this situation. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4-zgsrv Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils [textutils] 5.93-5 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.3.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an dpkg recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]