Comment 0 for bug 1030530

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Mike Mestnik (cheako) wrote : start-stop-daemon: --exec option borken under overlayfs.

But number 1007089 reports that the value of /proc/X/exec can be incorrect. This causes "start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/syslog-ng --pidfile /var/run/syslog-ng.pid" to fail.

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
invoke-rc.d: initscript syslog-ng, action "reload" failed.
error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/syslog of '/var/log/syslog
'
invoke-rc.d: initscript syslog-ng, action "reload" failed.
error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daemon.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/cron.log
/var/log/debug
/var/log/messages
'
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7 [modified: sbin/start-stop-daemon]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.31-lowlatency-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-lowlatency-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 29 09:48:24 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dpkg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-03 (208 days ago)