Quoting David Baron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As I posted, the problem is NOT in the boinc-app-seti package at all. > > The start-stop-daemon for boinc (boinc-client) was producing a pid file > containing a different pid number than the actual boinc pid! This would cause > the distribution /etc/init.d/boinc_client fails to stop the boinc and this > causes all the installation problems for seti. > > I changed that script to simply NOT test the pid number but killall boinc if > any such pid file exists. Boinc-app-seti will now install. > > This but, degraded as appropriate belong to either boinc (boinc_client) or > start-stop-daemon.
Well, in such case, the bug must be reassigned... probably to boinc. I would also downgrade it to important. I don't think that using killall in the init script is really policy-compliant. I wouldn't recommend doing this.
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