Hi! On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 09:26:16 +0100, Ralf Jung wrote: > this issue is still present in current wheezy, including the backports > package. Without taking manual steps, it results in rsyslog filling up > the disk as log rotation is completely broken - so I'd argue it should > have a severity of important, at least (it may even be RC, as it should > affect many packages - but only in rsyslog I see this problem, so far). > > I fixed this now on my system by replacing "--exec $DAEMON" in do_stop > with "--name $RSYSLOGD". But that still leaves --exec rather useless for > "stop", so I am also re-assigning the bug to dpkg (start-stop-daemon).
If --exec is supposedly broken then this would affect any daemon using it, which I find a bit perplexing, and I'd have expected a ton of bug reports on dpkg due to broken upgrades. I've rechecked it on current unstable, and it still works here. Going over the original bug report I see this very suspicious line: ,--- chrisb@massmail:~$ sudo ls /proc/427/exe -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 6 01:33 /proc/427/exe -> (deleted)/usr/sbin/rsyslogd `--- If this is really the contents of the exe symlink, then that's the reason s-s-d cannot find the process. The expected contents of the symlink when the inode has been unlinked should be «/pathname (deleted)». Chris, Ralf, what kind of kernel are you guys using? Is that a custom one? Perhaps heavily patched? Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
