`sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb stop` fails, doesn't kill couchdb

[Jason Gerard DeRose]

Easy to reproduce:

jderose@jgd-ws:~$ sudo apt-get install couchdb
.
.
jderose@jgd-ws:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb stop
 * Stopping database server couchdb [fail]
jderose@jgd-ws:~$ ps -ef | grep couchdb
couchdb 28779 1 0 04:49 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -e /usr/bin/couchdb -a /etc/couchdb/default.ini -a /etc/couchdb/local.ini -b -r 5 -p /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -o /dev/null -e /dev/null -R
couchdb 28794 28779 0 04:49 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh -e /usr/bin/couchdb -a /etc/couchdb/default.ini -a /etc/couchdb/local.ini -b -r 5 -p /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -o /dev/null -e /dev/null -R
couchdb 28795 28794 0 04:49 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/erlang/erts-5.8.5/bin/beam.smp -Bd -K true -A 4 -- -root /usr/lib/erlang -progname erl -- -home /var/lib/couchdb -- -noshell -noinput -sasl errlog_type error -couch_ini /etc/couchdb/default.ini /etc/couchdb/local.ini /etc/couchdb/default.ini /etc/couchdb/local.ini -s couch -pidfile /var/run/couchdb/couchdb.pid -heart
couchdb 28811 28795 0 04:49 ? 00:00:00 heart -pid 28795 -ht 11
jderose 28893 14345 0 04:51 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto couchdb

It would be great to SRU a fix for this because if `/etc/init.d/couchdb stop` doesn't work, it's sort of impossible to gracefully upgrade to a newer CouchDB, which I'm trying to finally make happen for Quantal:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/couchdb/+bug/1022515

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: couchdb 1.0.1-0ubuntu18
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jul 15 04:42:25 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120122)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: couchdb
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jason Gerard DeRose (jderose)]

Hmm, after digging into this further, this bug is very weird. "stop" is only broken immediately after the install. For example, this doesn't work:

sudo apt-get install couchdb
sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb stop

But this does work:

sudo apt-get install couchdb
<reboot>
sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb stop

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bas Grolleman (bgrolleman)]

Got the same issue, killing the couchdb entries and restarting makes it work fine from there.

This does however break my puppet run, because I get a failed to restart couchdb when new configuration is loaded.