[including joeyh again as it looks like base-config really is (contributing to) the cause]
On Sunday 27 March 2005 23:38, Marc Haber wrote: > How does that strace look like in a situation where the daemon > immediately dies? Process 7725 attached - interrupt to quit 21:52:16.851305 select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, NULL) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted) 21:52:30.435597 --- SIGTERM (Terminated) @ 0 (0) --- Process 7725 detached > Is it possible that the installer establishes a signal handler which > is then inherited by the processes started from the installer, and > thus the SIGTERM sent by s-s-d to exim is caught by that handler > instead of getting through to exim? Could well be. /usr/sbin/base-config has: <snip> if [ "$NEW" ]; then # Trap most signals because a ctrl-c killing base-config # in the middle of the second stage install would be bad. trap "" HUP INT QUIT TERM [some lines not included] else # Running again on an existing install. Just trap ctrl-c, and # cleanly exit. trap cleanup INT fi </snip> The only problem is that, looking at the SVN repo for base-config, this code has been in there for a long time. So how come this pause has only recently become visible? I'm fairly sure that the pause was not there a few months ago (although I do 2nd stage installations a lot less than 1st stage installations). I will try to check this tomorrow. Cheers, Frans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]