On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 19:55, Diego Santa Cruz via Openembedded-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org> wrote: > I am having problems with daemons that get started from the rpm postinstall > scriptlet, via update-rc.d, that they cannot be killed. Investigating I > discovered that they have most signals blocked. My guess is that rpm blocks > almost all signals so that scriptlets do not fail, but as the signal mask is > inherited across fork and exec the daemons end up being blocked. Looking at > update-rc.d it is a simple shell script which does not reset the signal mask, > so any daemons started from there inherit the signal mask. > > Even worse, things like ntp which rely on SIGALRM fail to work properly when > started from the postinstall scriptlet. > > Any ideas on how could this be solved, I am considering tweaking update-rc.d > to ignore the -s option as a workaround, at least it avoids the issue and > anyhow in my setup I always reboot after installing or updating packages. Any > other ideas?
I'd suggest you take this to rpm upstream. Obviously rpm is widely used in Fedora, RHEL and other distros, so somehow people can find a way around this. Alex -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
