Package: irqbalance
Version: 0.55-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

This is the current description of the package in Debian.
irqbalance - Daemon to balance interrupts for SMP systems


My understanding of a daemon is that the process keeps running in the
background. But in case of irqbalance, the process silently exits. There
are no messages logged into syslog or dmesg.

I ran irqbalance in --debug mode and following is the output.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo irqbalance --debug
Package 0:  cpu mask is 00000003 (workload 0)
        Cache domain 0: cpu mask is 00000003  (workload 0)
                CPU number 1  (workload 0)
                CPU number 0  (workload 0)
Interrupt 17 (class ethernet) has workload 59
Interrupt 0 (class timer) has workload 556
Interrupt 8 (class timer) has workload 0
Interrupt 14 (class storage) has workload 1
Interrupt 18 (class storage) has workload 0
Interrupt 15 (class storage) has workload 0
Interrupt 16 (class legacy) has workload 269
Interrupt 20 (class legacy) has workload 200
Interrupt 19 (class legacy) has workload 1
Interrupt 23 (class legacy) has workload 0
Interrupt 22 (class legacy) has workload 0
Interrupt 21 (class legacy) has workload 0
Interrupt 12 (class legacy) has workload 0
Interrupt 9 (class legacy) has workload 0
Interrupt 1 (class legacy) has workload 0



-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
IRQ delta is 6917
Package 0:  cpu mask is 00000003 (workload 5733)
        Cache domain 0: cpu mask is 00000003  (workload 5733)
                CPU number 1  (workload 1771)
                  Interrupt 17 (ethernet/307)
                  Interrupt 14 (storage/52)
                  Interrupt 15 (storage/0)
                  Interrupt 16 (legacy/1375)
                  Interrupt 19 (legacy/29)
                  Interrupt 22 (legacy/0)
                  Interrupt 12 (legacy/0)
                  Interrupt 1 (legacy/0)
                CPU number 0  (workload 3962)
                  Interrupt 18 (storage/0)
                  Interrupt 20 (legacy/1015)
                  Interrupt 23 (legacy/0)
                  Interrupt 21 (legacy/0)
                  Interrupt 9 (legacy/0)

I tried checking at the irqbalance website but didn't find any document
stating that silently exiting is WAD.
Since irqbalance is graded a daemon, it silently dying is a grave bug to
me.

Ritesh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (450, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-debian (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages irqbalance depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.14     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.6-2      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.12.13-1  The GLib library of C routines

irqbalance recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* irqbalance/oneshot: ONESHOT
  irqbalance/enable: ENABLE


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