[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#462182: Bug#462182: init script: start-stop-daemon --stop retry interval is much too long

[Michael Biebl]

severity 462182 minor
thanks

Paul Collins wrote:
> Package: dbus
> Version: 1.1.2-1
> 
> Recently I noticed on three separate machines running current unstable
> that dbus has started taking an age to shut down.  I had a look and it
> seems that although dbus-daemon exits immediately, start-stop-daemon is
> waiting a full minute before checking, due to the --retry argument
> passed to it.
> 
> Please consider reducing this timeout.  I've run 'invoke-rc.d dbus
> restart' in a loop here with --retry altered to 2 and it seems solid.
> 
> (The scripts in my /etc/init.d seem to use a value of 3 or 5, so if this
> is partly due to a recent change in start-stop-daemon, that may be why
> it is only apparent with dbus.)
> 

That's a bug in dpkg [1], which has already been fixed in 1.14.16.3.
So with this fixed dpkg version this issue becomes moot.
Btw. did you also test under high load and lot of I/O?
If we change it, then most likely to 5 secs.

Cheers,
Michael

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462104

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