Fabrizio Ferraro wrote:
> I recently updated my htpc running Freevo 1.9.0 on Gentoo.
> As part on the update process, Python 2.6 was installed.
>
> After some time I realized that I'm no more able to shutdown freevo and
> any of the helpers I'm running (recordserver and webserver) because
> freevo pretend that they are not running:
>
> i...@htpc ~ $ freevo webserver --stop --debug
> [SNIP]
> stop(name='webserver', arg=['python',
> '/opt/freevo/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/webserver.py'])
> getpid(name='webserver', args=['python',
> '/opt/freevo/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/helpers/webserver.py'])
> 4:fname='/tmp/webserver-1000.pid' pid=0 arg='python'
> cannot kill 'webserver' no pid
> webserver not running
>
> Well... trust me: the webserver _is_ running ;)
>
> Looking at the debug messages (and then at the freevo code), it seems
> that the getpid() function expect the name of the python executable to
> be "python", while on my Gentoo system the name is instead
> "/usr/bin/python2.6".
> Gentoo allows you to have more than one version of python present on the
> same system. You can select which one you want to use by running
> "eselect python set <version>". /usr/bin/python is actually a simlink to
> /usr/bin/python-wrapper, so I straced it and discovered that it
> basically reads a configuration file (which is a text file containing
> just the string "python2.6") and than execve("/usr/bin/python2.6"). This
> is the reason of the difference in the executable names. Judging by the
> dates, it seems that the python-wrapper executable has been installed
> during the last update.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not have the necessary programming skills to fix it
> myself and can't do much more than reporting the problem.
> By now, I'll continue to send TERM signals around ;)
>
> Cheers,
> izio
>
From a glance it seems that a patch might be needed to resolve this. Do
you want to submit a bug report to the tracker?
John
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