Bug#469185: /sbin/start-stop-daemon: signal value must be numeric or name of signall

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:27:13PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>  > # invoke-rc.d exim4 stop
>  > Stopping MTA:/sbin/start-stop-daemon: signal value must be numeric or name of signal (KILL, INT, ...)
>  > Try `/sbin/start-stop-daemon --help' for more information.
>  >  exim4_listener.
>
>  Please run set EX4DEBUG=1 and run /etc/init.d/exim4 stop to help
>  finding out what's going on.

That didn't work.
EX4DEBUG=1
export EX4DEBUG
works better.

# /etc/init.d/exim4 stop
now debugging /etc/init.d/exim4 stop
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ QUEUERUNNER=combined
+ QUEUEINTERVAL=30m
+ UPEX4OPTS=
+ PIDFILE=/var/run/exim4/exim.pid
+ QRPIDFILE=/var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid
+ '[' -f /etc/default/exim4 ']'
+ . /etc/default/exim4
++ EX4DEF_VERSION=
++ QUEUERUNNER=combined
++ QUEUEINTERVAL=30m
++ COMMONOPTIONS=
++ QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS=
++ QFLAGS=
++ SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS=
+ '[' -f /etc/inetd.conf ']'
+ DAEMON=/usr/sbin/exim4
+ NAME=exim4
+ test -x /usr/lib/exim4/exim4
+ case "$1" in
+ log_daemon_msg 'Stopping MTA'
+ '[' -z 'Stopping MTA' ']'
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ echo -n 'Stopping MTA:'
Stopping MTA:+ return
+ stop_exim
+ '[' -f /var/run/exim4/eximqr.pid ']'
+ '[' -f /var/run/exim4/exim.pid ']'
+ killproc -p /var/run/exim4/exim.pid /usr/sbin/exim4
+ local pidfile sig status base i name_param is_term_sig
+ pidfile=
+ name_param=
+ is_term_sig=no
+ OPTIND=1
+ getopts p: opt
+ case "$opt" in
+ pidfile=/var/run/exim4/exim.pid
+ getopts p: opt
+ shift 2
+ base=exim4
+ '[' '!' /var/run/exim4/exim.pid ']'
++ echo
++ sed -e 's/^-\(.*\)/\1/'
+ sig=
++ echo
++ sed -e 's/^SIG\(.*\)/\1/'
+ sig=
+ '[' -n '' -o '' = 15 -o '' = TERM ']'
+ status=0
+ '[' '!' no = yes ']'
+ /sbin/start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid
--signal '' --quiet
/sbin/start-stop-daemon: signal value must be numeric or name of
signal (KILL, INT, ...)
Try `/sbin/start-stop-daemon --help' for more information.
+ status=3
+ '[' 3 = 1 ']'
+ '[' 3 = 0 -a no = yes ']'
+ return 0
+ log_progress_msg exim4_listener
+ '[' -z exim4_listener ']'
+ echo -n ' exim4_listener'
 exim4_listener+ log_end_msg 0
+ '[' -z 0 ']'
+ log_use_fancy_output
+ TPUT=/usr/bin/tput
+ EXPR=/usr/bin/expr
+ '[' xlinux '!=' xdumb ']'
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/tput ']'
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/expr ']'
+ /usr/bin/tput hpa 60
+ /usr/bin/tput setaf 1
+ '[' -z ']'
+ FANCYTTY=1
+ case "$FANCYTTY" in
+ true
++ /usr/bin/tput setaf 1
+ RED=''
++ /usr/bin/tput op
+ NORMAL=''
+ '[' 0 -eq 0 ']'
+ echo .
.
+ return 0
+ warn_paniclog
+ '[' -s /var/log/exim4/paniclog ']'
+ exit 0