On Mon November 6 2006 04:32, Marc Haber wrote: > Now, kill all running exims manually,
Do you mean with "killall" (leaving a stale pidfile in /var/run/exim4), or "/etc/init.d/exim4 stop"? I have confirmed that rm-ing the pidfile and reinstalling exim4-daemon-light results in a paniclog entry, which is what I saw with the last upgrade... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rm /var/run/exim4/exim.pid [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get --reinstall install exim4-daemon-light Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/411kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 350619 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace exim4-daemon-light 4.63-10 (using .../exim4-daemon-light_4.63-10_i386.deb) ... Stopping MTA:. Unpacking replacement exim4-daemon-light ... Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.63-10) ... Starting MTA: exim4. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# tail -f /var/log/exim4/mainlog 2006-11-06 04:33:56 IPv6 socket creation failed: Address family not supported by protocol 2006-11-06 04:33:57 Failed to create IPv6 socket for wildcard listening (Address family not supported by protocol): will use IPv4 2006-11-06 04:33:57 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4) failed: Address already in use: waiting 30s before trying again (9 more tries) <...> 2006-11-06 04:38:27 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any IPv4) failed: Address already in use: daemon abandoned [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# killall exim4 ...leaving me with no daemon and no pidfile. > start one again, and then invoke start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile > /var/run/exim4/exim.pid > --oknodo --retry 30 --exec /usr/sbin/exim4 and see whether the daemon > stops, and/or the pid file still exists. > > An strace -f of that start-stop-daemon issue would be great as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/exim4 start Starting MTA: exim4. [daemon running and pidfile exists] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# strace -f start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/exim4/exim.pid --oknodo --retry 30 --exec /usr/sbin/exim4 execve("/sbin/start-stop-daemon", ["start-stop-daemon", "--stop", "--pidfile", "/var/run/exim4/exim.pid", "--oknodo", "--retry", "30", "--exec", "/usr/sbin/exim4"], [/* 11 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="onegee", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x804d000 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7fbe000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7fbd000 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=111199, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 111199, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xa7fa1000 close(3) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240O\1"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1241580, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1247388, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xa7e70000 mmap2(0xa7f97000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x127) = 0xa7f97000 mmap2(0xa7f9e000, 10396, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7f9e000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7e6f000 mprotect(0xa7f97000, 20480, PROT_READ) = 0 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xa7e6f6c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0xa7fa1000, 111199) = 0 brk(0) = 0x804d000 brk(0x806e000) = 0x806e000 stat64("/usr/sbin/exim4", {st_mode=S_IFREG|S_ISUID|0755, st_size=688128, ...}) = 0 open("/var/run/exim4/exim.pid", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7e4f000 read(3, "17741\n", 131072) = 6 readlink("/proc/17741/exe", "/usr/sbin/exim4", 256) = 15 stat64("/usr/sbin/exim4", {st_mode=S_IFREG|S_ISUID|0755, st_size=688128, ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xa7e4f000, 131072) = 0 kill(17741, SIGTERM) = 0 gettimeofday({1162813404, 246666}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1162813404, 247096}, NULL) = 0 open("/var/run/exim4/exim.pid", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa7e4f000 read(3, "17741\n", 131072) = 6 readlink("/proc/17741/exe", 0xafeb6930, 256) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(3) = 0 munmap(0xa7e4f000, 131072) = 0 exit_group(0) = ? Process 17873 detached [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps aux|grep exim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -la /var/run/exim4 total 5 drwxr-x--- 2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 72 Nov 6 04:39 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1048 Nov 5 21:31 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root Debian-exim 6 Nov 6 04:39 exim.pid - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]