[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#827388: systemd: systemctl restart winbind starts a broken winbind

[Joshua Hudson]

In this case, the init script has restart != stop + start. Had systemd
called restart it probably would have worked.

On 6/15/16, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 winbind 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2
>
> On 15 June 2016 at 11:52, Joshua Hudson <joshudson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 215-17+deb8u4
>> Severity: important
>>
>> # systemctl restart winbind (to get it to reread its config file) starts
>> a
>> broken winbind, apparently because ti doesn't ensure the previous copy
>> shut down cleanly first. winbind is a multi-process daemon and it looks
>> like systemd only kills the root process; this would cause the new copy
>> to have trouble starting up. The old processes are visible in ps for a
>> long time.
>>
>> Repeatedly running systemctl restart winbind eventually works; however
>> this is a real pain to figure out when winbind is not functioning for
>> some other reason. (In this case the clock had wandered out of range.)
>
> Systemd cannot assume it can kill all processes, unless the service
> declares that. Currently winbind does not have a native systemd
> service, but an init script. Thus, the init script should ensure
> winbind is really exited before returning.
>
> This is a bug in the winbind init script. Thus reassigning to winbind.
>
> --
>
> Saludos,
> Felipe Sateler
>