[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#719273: sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown

[Daniel Povey]

Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.88dsf-41
Severity: important
Tags: d-i upstream

Dear Maintainer,

This bug is basically the same as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=138788   
which has been resolved in Red Hat.  Basically, the current version of "pidof" looks in /proc
for stuff that it doesn't really need to look for, which leads to an attempt to access files or
directories on broken NFS mount points (if they exist), whifch leads to a hang.  This
prevents normal shutdown of a machine with broken NFS mount points. The Red Hat people seem to have 
fixed this issue already.


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   * What led up to the situation?  We have a system with many NFS mounts, some of 
      which sometimes go down.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?  No satisfactory resolution yet.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils depends on:
ii  libc6        2.13-38
ii  libselinux1  2.1.9-5

sysvinit-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils suggests:
pn  bootlogd  <none>
pn  sash      <none>

-- no debconf information