reopen 211784 reassign 211784 libc6 retitle 211784 Use start-stop-daemon --restart quit
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:36:03PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 08:02:46 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 07:21, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > We're talking about libc6.postinst start-stop code (line:264). We > > > don't execute start-stop-daemon directly. So I think --retry option > > > issue is out of scope. > > > > One should be able to call an initscript with the "restart" > > argument in order to restart the service that it controls. If > > that doesn't work then there is a bug in the initscript. > > Stopping and starting should also work without a "sleep" in > > between. This is something that should be addressed post-sarge. > > I agree with Thomas, those init scripts are buggy. Also the > functionality is already present in start-stop-daemon with the --retry > option. The fact that --stop does not wait is explained clearly in > the man pages, and I don't think it's s-s-d's fault if people expect > it to do something it's not supposed to. > > Thus closing. Next time you close a bug, please look at the original report. I never filed this against dpkg, it was reassigned by the maintainer of the package it was filed against. The original bug AFAICS is still there. > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.3.2-7 > Severity: normal > > The delay of one second between stop/start is too short for nis. > On my system, it often takes between one and two seconds to shutdown > nis. > > This causes nis to be stopped but not started after a libc6 upgrade. > > The solution is either to increase the delay to at least two seconds, > or use a better method to determine when the stop has completed. > > -- System Information > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Kernel Version: Linux gondolin 2.4.22-1-686-smp #1 SMP Sat Sep 6 00:06:59 EST > 2003 i686 GNU/Linux > > Versions of the packages libc6 depends on: > ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [glibc 2.0/2. Thanks, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
