PXE fails to shut down

[Pavel Mlčoch]

Binary package hint: pxe

When I try shudown or restart system, I see only text shutdown daemon PXE and system run further.

[Jim Qode (jimqode)]

Please try to explain your problem with more details.
What is the distro release you are using?
What is the version of the effected package?

If possible please send the output.

[Pavel Mlčoch (pavkamlc)]

Distro: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (8.7.2007)
Installed version:
ii pxe 1.4.2-7 free PXE daemon

Output when I try stop this service:
root@pavka:/home/pavka# /etc/init.d/pxe stop
Stopping pxe:

Then stopping wait and wait...

Ill try strace this in attachement. stopping waited repeately.

[Carlos Villaronga (cvillaronga)]

i have the same problem in hardy. i'd been tried using:

# /etc/init.d/pxe force-reload
Restarting pxe:
..........

Then the process stopping, and I need to break it.

[Brandon Coleman (metrix1978)]

I had the very same problem in debian etch. The problem is that when /etc/init.d/pxe stop is run the script gets hung in the wait_no_pid() function:

wait_no_pid()
{
        while [ -e "$PID" ]
        do
                sleep 1
        done
}
This looks to see if a PID file exists, and if it does it waits a second and checks again.

What I think happened is that the permissions on the PID file:
/var/run/pxe/pxe.pid

were changed either by me, or by a script in Debian at some point (more then likely it was me following a pxe howto) I'm not sure if this is a bug of PXE, but more like a bug with the init scripts where I think it should let the end-user know the permissions are wrong on the script.

Brandon

[Brandon Coleman (metrix1978)]

can someone with this problem run this on their server with the issue?
ls -lrt /var/run/pxe/pxe.pid

when I do this i get the following permissions:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Aug 31 08:53 /var/run/pxe/pxe.pid