logrotate with lighttpd graceful shutdown and restart failed.

[BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明]

Binary package hint: lighttpd

Sometimes don't but sometimes lighttpd graceful shutdown at 6:25am and never wake up until you do /etc/init.d/lighttpd start.

This bug will make web server admin crazy bcoz you will never know if lighttpd will be still running tomorrow!

LOG: /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
2006-12-05 06:25:33: (server.c.1216) [note] graceful shutdown started
2006-12-05 06:31:25: (server.c.1126) NOTE: a request for /AdView/avi/MuchCard.avi timed out after writing 57920 bytes. We waited 360 second
s. If this a problem increase server.max-write-idle
2006-12-05 06:31:25: (log.c.135) server stopped
2006-12-05 09:47:07: (log.c.75) server started

To fix the bug, edit /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd:
replace the following lines:
           if [ -f /var/run/lighttpd.pid ]; then \
             if [ -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ]; then \
                invoke-rc.d lighttpd reload > /dev/null; \
             else \
                /etc/init.d/lighttpd reload > /dev/null; \
             fi; \
           fi;
by:
        if [ -f /var/run/lighttpd.pid ]; then \
                kill -HUP $(</var/run/lighttpd.pid) ; \
        fi;

The solution's by darix in #lighttpd on Freenode.

[BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明 (bluet)]

BTW, this bug's on both Debian and Ubuntu.

[BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明 (bluet)]

Debian had the same bug, but fixed soon.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380080

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

We've merged with Debian, so this should be fixed now.

[BlueT - Matthew Lien - 練喆明 (bluet)]

Nope, Soren.
There's No updates for lighttpd in Dapper 6.06.1 LTS. :-S

the package "lighttpd" is still a broken package, crash-able.
I don't know if there's any updates in Edgy. @_@

[Lukas Fittl (lfittl)]

please test with the lighttpd update available from dapper-proposed.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

I've uploaded the security fix for 1.4.11-3ubuntu3.1 to dapper-proposed.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I've just added the verification-needed tag as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates.

[Andreas Påhlsson (andreas-pahlsson-xcerion)]

The following bug may or may not be related to this bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/184777

The bug is still present in lighttpd 1.4.11-3ubuntu3.5