[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#524314: Bug#524314: [sysv-rc] Sysv-rc always reports that actions failed

[Kel Modderman]

On Thursday 16 April 2009 18:42:39 Carlo Aquilini wrote:
> Hello, I discovered it during acpid upgrade that failed claiming that it
> couldn't stop and restart the service (solved by momentarily
> renaming /etc/init.d/acpid and then upgrading).

The output of the upgrade should be provided.

> 
> 
> One example could be "freepops":
> $ ps aux | grep freepops
> carlo     8052  0.0  0.0   3212   752 pts/0    S+   10:28   0:00 grep
> freepops
> nobody   15771  0.4  0.3  27936  7448 ?        S    09:48
> 0:11 /usr/bin/freepopsd -p 110 -n -s nobody.nogroup
> 
> $ sudo invoke-rc.d freepops stop
>  * Stopping freepops daemon freepopsd		[ OK ] 
> invoke-rc.d: initscript freepops, action "stop" failed.
> 
> $ ps aux | grep freepops
> carlo    11644  0.0  0.0   3212   752 pts/0    R+   10:34   0:00 grep
> freepops
> 
> $ sudo invoke-rc.d freepops start
>  * Starting freepops daemon freepopsd		[ OK ] 
> invoke-rc.d: initscript freepops, action "start" failed.
> 
> $ ps aux | grep freepops
> nobody   12303  0.0  0.0   5980  1708 ?        S    10:35
> 0:00 /usr/bin/freepopsd -p 110 -n -s nobody.nogroup
> carlo    12690  0.0  0.0   3212   752 pts/0    R+   10:36   0:00 grep
> freepops
> 
> 
> So that package "freepops" is stopped and started successfully, but
> invoke-rc.d claims that the actions failed.
> This happens with every service in /etc/init.d/

I installed the freepops package to investigate, and then run the following
commands:

root at nomad:/home/kelmo# invoke-rc.d freepops start
Starting freepops daemon: freepopsd.
root at nomad:/home/kelmo# invoke-rc.d freepops stop
Stopping freepops daemon: freepopsd.
root at nomad:/home/kelmo#

The output look a little different to yours, and I cannot reproduce the
failure.

Thanks, Kel.
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