We're going to check it out early next week, whether it still applies. The bug it fixes is a situation where pidof reaches a process that's in a bad state such as D or Z, that might have an executable on a stuck mount point or something like that, and gets stuck, preventing system maintenance tasks or shutdown.
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Ian Jackson < ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + patch > > Daniel Povey writes ("Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: > /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing > shutdown)"): > > No-one ever responded to this thread (years ago). > > We have just noticed the same problem on a newer version of Debian and > we are > > going to dig up our old patch and use it. > > This is an issue for services like rpcbind for which systemd uses the > older > > SysV init scripts. > > Thanks for pinging this bug. > > Do you know if the patch still applies to current sysvinit source ? > > Reading a non-unified diff certainly takes me back some years... > > Regards, > Ian. >