Bug#449287: /etc/init.d/exim4 gives "no such process" error when stopping exim4

[Kevin Baradon]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.68-1
Severity: normal


Here is the testcase: 

kev1:/home/kevin# ps aux | grep exim4
102      26121  0.0  0.1   5880   920 ?        Ss   18:45   0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
root     26348  0.0  0.1   3572   788 pts/6    S+   18:45   0:00 grep exim4
kev1:/home/kevin# invoke-rc.d exim4 status
checking separate queue runner daemon...done (not running).
checking combined SMTP listener and queue runner daemon...done (running).
kev1:/home/kevin# invoke-rc.d exim4 stop
Stopping MTA:/sbin/start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 26121: No such process
 exim4_listener.
kev1:/home/kevin# ps aux | grep exim4
root     26639  0.0  0.1   3572   788 pts/6    S+   18:45   0:00 grep exim4

So it appears there's something wrong with initscript/PID file handling.


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.68 #1 built 07-Oct-2007 22:03:11
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.19: (August 10, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost='kev1.homeip.net'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='smtp.gmail.com'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:kev1.homeip.net

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR at euro)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.16     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.68-1     support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.68-1     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

exim4 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* exim4/drec: