Not stoppable/restartable via initctl

[Jürgen Kreileder]

Binary package hint: irqbalance

[irqbalance_0.55+20091017-3ubuntu2 on lucid]

irqbalance can not be stopped by upstart. 'stop irqbalance' just says 'Unknown instance'.

Note the different PIDs in the log below: 'start irqbalance' says 26320, while the actual running daemon has PID 26321

# stop irqbalance
stop: Unknown instance:
# ps auxw | grep [i]rqbalance
root 26991 0.0 0.0 11276 640 ? Ss 16:28 0:01 /usr/sbin/irqbalance
# kill 26991
# ps auxw | grep [i]rqbalance
# start irqbalance
irqbalance start/running, process 26320
# stop irqbalance
stop: Unknown instance:
# ps auxw | grep [i]rqbalance
root 26321 0.0 0.0 11276 640 ? Ss 21:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/irqbalance

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for the bug report Ill have a look at this.

chuck

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package irqbalance - 0.55+20091017-3ubuntu3

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irqbalance (0.55+20091017-3ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/do-irqbalance-pid.patch: Upstart needs a pid so it can shut down.
    (LP: #580674)
  * debian/irqbalance.upstart: Update upstart script.
 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Tue, 25 May 2010 17:38:47 -0400

[Jürgen Kreileder (jk)]

Reopened. The patch does not completely solve the problem:

The pid file doesn't get removed when irqbalance shuts down (missing capabilities?) and the next start fails because of open(...O_CREAT|O_EXCL...).

# sudo start irqbalance
irqbalance start/running, process 1347
# cat /var/run/irqbalance.pid ; echo
1347
# sudo stop irqbalance
irqbalance stop/waiting
# ps auxw | grep [i]rqbalance
# cat /var/run/irqbalance.pid ; echo
1347
# sudo start irqbalance
irqbalance start/spawned, process 1358
# ps auxw | grep [i]rqbalance
# tail /var/log/syslog
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1369) terminated with status 1
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process ended, respawning
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1371) terminated with status 1
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process ended, respawning
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1373) terminated with status 1
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process ended, respawning
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1375) terminated with status 1
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process ended, respawning
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance main process (1377) terminated with status 1
May 26 00:37:58 sphere init: irqbalance respawning too fast, stopped

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

This should be fixed for maverick.

[Graham (ubuntu-grahams)]

I'm having this problem in an automated nightly build of a Natty Live Disc

Setting up irqbalance (0.56-1ubuntu3) ...
/etc/init.d/irqbalance: 85: start: not found
invoke-rc.d: initscript irqbalance, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing irqbalance (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127