start-stop-daemon: select() failed for pause: Invalid argument

[Andreas Påhlsson]

Binary package hint: dpkg

Lighttpd often dies when rotating the logs. Trying to reproduce the error manually i got the following error.

root@test001:~# /etc/init.d/lighttpd reload
 * Reloading web server configuration lighttpd
start-stop-daemon: select() failed for pause: Invalid argument (Invalid argument)

This may or may not be the cause of the logrotate problems. But it surely tells me that start-stop-daemon is broken.

[Andreas Påhlsson (andreas-pahlsson-xcerion)]

The bug seams to be that the interval argument to select is negative. This patch addresses that and also removes time macros that made the code unreadable. Test, test, test.

[Andreas Påhlsson (andreas-pahlsson-xcerion)]

An update of the previous patch.

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Andreas Påhlsson

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[Andreas Påhlsson (andreas-pahlsson-xcerion)]

The actual patch...

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

To get your fix (or workaround) included in Ubuntu, try transforming it into a debdiff (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Recipes/Debdiff) and submitting it for review (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess).

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Setting to incomplete for now - set back to 'new' if you've attached the debdiff and subscribed the sponsoring team.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Setting to In Progress.

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

Fixed upstream in commit fb08b88f65d57baa742f33e8e6ec36a772fe801a and available in dpkg >= 1.14.16.3.