Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063806
Title:
ntp deadlock while exiting and never stop
Status in ntp package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Software version:
* Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
* arch : x86_64
* ntp 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.1
* libc6 2.15-0ubuntu10.2
We hit a strang behavious on some machine, where ntp refuse to quit if
stopped right after startup:
When running the following command: /etc/init.d/ntp start && /etc/init.d/ntp
stop
ntp still running and ignoring further kill.
In syslog we can see the stop is effectivly taken in account:
Oct 8 12:45:36 app01 ntpd[16713]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Sending more "kill 16713" do nothing.
We have the "start and just after stop" behavious on our server, because of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/887162.
Short summary: dhcp server don't reply until dhcp client lost the IP and
request new IP using broadcast request:
* (AFAIK) when dhcp don't get answer from DHCP and remove the IP is call a
hook which restart ntp (/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp)
* dhcp retry just after to grab a new IP and get the IP. Interface goes up, a
hook restart one more the ntpd (/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate)
After digging further, I reproduced the issue on my local machine by using a
simple script which start and kill ntpd until we reach the issue. Once the
issue reproduced I attached gdb to the process and showed stack (see
gdb-stack-dbg.txt). Looking to this stack, it seems that the issue is syslog
function which is not re-entrant. When signal SIGTERM occure while "main
thread" called syslog, this cause a deadlock.
I also attached gdb-stack.txt using packaged ntpd (so no debuging symbol for
ntpd function).
And I attached ntpd_loop.py : the basic script which start and kill ntpd
until it hang. You may need to change the short sleep between start/stop and/or
run other resource consuming process on other terminal (I usually do a find /).
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