Reopened. The patch does not completely solve the problem: The pid file doesn't get removed when irqbalance shuts down (missing capabilities?) and the next start fails because of open(...O_CREAT|O_EXCL...).
# sudo start irqbalance irqbalance start/running, process 1347 # cat /var/run/irqbalance.pid ; echo 1347 # sudo stop irqbalance irqbalance stop/waiting # ps auxw | grep [i]rqbalance # cat /var/run/irqbalance.pid ; echo 1347 # sudo start irqbalance irqbalance start/spawned, process 1358 # ps auxw | grep [i]rqbalance # tail /var/log/syslog May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1369) terminated with status 1 May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process ended, respawning May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1371) terminated with status 1 May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process ended, respawning May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1373) terminated with status 1 May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process ended, respawning May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1375) terminated with status 1 May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process ended, respawning May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1377) terminated with status 1 May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance respawning too fast, stopped -- Not stoppable/restartable via initctl https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/580674 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs