Package: mpt-status Version: 1.1.6-8 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 6.2
On installation, mpt-status fails because of the handling of d_stop and d_start in the /etc/init.d/mpt-statusd. Because RUN_DAEMON is set to "yes" by default, 'daemon' is used to start it, but the pid of the script (not daemon) is put into PIDFILE. However, when d_stop is called, it acts on the pid in PIDFILE, which doesn't respond to the normal signal handling for some reason, and the script exits with error, and then mpt-status is left in an unconfigured state. 'apt-get -f install' will not fix it. A workaround is to set 'RUN_DAEMON=no' in /etc/init.d/mpt-statusd, and then run 'apt-get -f install' (however, this exposes another bug where you reference "mpt-statusd is disabled in /etc/default/mpt-statusd" but /etc/default/mpt-statusd does not exist). This affects more than just the installation of the package though, as you can't use '/etc/init.d/mpt-statusd' to stop and restart the process without errors, because of the way the '/etc/init.d/mpt-statusd check_mpt' is dealing with signals. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages mpt-status depends on: ii daemon 0.6.3-1 turns other processes into daemons ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip mpt-status recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-3-386 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
