Comment 0 for bug 683640

Binary package hint: lsb

When status_of_proc is called with -p $PIDFILE and the service is not presently started, error code 4 is always returned because the process does not have the PID file existant until it is started, and it's deleted after stopping.

This fails LSB compliance because it should report 0 if the service is stopped as expected.

status_of_proc should /optionally/ check if a pid file exists or not, not make it mandatory to exist before throwing an error code. If pid file does exist, check it, verify it's associated with $DAEMON, and if not try to determine if the process is actually running under a different pid, if not, then return error code 0 because it is determined that it is /not/ running.

Error code 4 in LSB is reserved for total permanent failure that requires manual intervention to correct. Such as, the process daemon isn't executable due to permissions, or it tried to start but fails.. error code 4 is likely never used on checking status is very basic. Either it's running, or it's not. That's all status_of_proc should report, nothing more, nothing less.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lsb-base 4.0-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-26.48-server 2.6.32.24+drm33.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-26-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 1 08:27:21 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lsb