logrotate's restart of proftpd fails to start

[Jim Kyle]

Xubuntu 14.04.1, fully updated. Since approximately November 15, 2014, running logrotate via cron.daily has stopped the proftpd server via SIGHUP, but server fails to re-start. Manually restarting works properly. Am not certain whether problem is in logrotate or proftpd, but neither has updated recently. Possible cause may be dbus changes done in early November.

Current workaround is to create a cron.hourly task that checks proftpd status and if not running, starts the server again.

[Rolf Offermanns (rolf-offermanns)]

I have the same problem.

How to reproduce:
invoke-rc.d proftpd restart

1. If proftpd is running it will be not running after this command
2. If proftpd is *not* running, it will be running after this command

Expected result:
1. If proftpd is running, it will be running (again) after this command

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Diego Fernández Durán (diego-goedi)]

I'm suffering this same problem, it fails to restart manually or when rotating logs.

I've made a "dirty" solution, modifying /etc/init.d/proftpd, that solves the problem just waiting one second between stopping and starting the process again. Patch is attached.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "/etc/init.d/proftpd sleep" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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