zabbix-agent upstart script incorrect daemonization

[Nathan Bird]

The upstart init script packaged with zabbix-agent (1:2.0.3+dfsg-1~exp0ubuntu1) doesn't track it's daemonization correctly and leaves a non-functioning init script.

It's using Zabbix-agent(1:2.0.3+dfsg-1~exp0ubuntu1) from raring and upstart(1.5-0ubuntu9) from quantal so there is a chance that the two aren't happy together. I suspect that's not it.

Behavior:
sudo status zabbix-agent
zabbix-agent start/running, process 955

None of the zabbix processes have that pid, /var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid is 982.

sudo stop zabbix-agent
<hangs forever, expected it to stop>

sudo reload zabbix-agent
reload: No such process

This causes problems for logrotate scripts too.

[Nathan Bird (ecthellion)]

It looks like this is upstream bug https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-5234

[Michael Chernyak (michael-chernyak)]

The bug is valid.
It was introduced with conversion with conversion to upstart job.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zabbix/+bug/1047837

I suggest to go back to SysVInit until the issue is fixed

[Andrey Ivanov (andrey-v-ivanov)]

It seems solved in zabbix agent 2.2

[Daniel Schneller (daniel-schneller)]

Indeed, solved with the version in 14.04. Caused trouble during the upgrade form 13.10 though, of course, because the shutdown did not work correctly. Had to kill it during the upgrade, but that was all. Now it comes up correctly.