<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Thursday 16 April 2009 18:42:39 Carlo Aquilini wrote:<br>
> Hello, I discovered it during acpid upgrade that failed claiming that it<br>
> couldn't stop and restart the service (solved by momentarily<br>
> renaming /etc/init.d/acpid and then upgrading).<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The output of the upgrade should be provided.<br>
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> <br>
> One example could be "freepops":<br>
> $ ps aux | grep freepops<br>
> carlo 8052 0.0 0.0 3212 752 pts/0 S+ 10:28 0:00 grep<br>
> freepops<br>
> nobody 15771 0.4 0.3 27936 7448 ? S 09:48<br>
> 0:11 /usr/bin/freepopsd -p 110 -n -s nobody.nogroup<br>
> <br>
> $ sudo invoke-rc.d freepops stop<br>
> * Stopping freepops daemon freepopsd [ OK ] <br>
> invoke-rc.d: initscript freepops, action "stop" failed.<br>
> <br>
> $ ps aux | grep freepops<br>
> carlo 11644 0.0 0.0 3212 752 pts/0 R+ 10:34 0:00 grep<br>
> freepops<br>
> <br>
> $ sudo invoke-rc.d freepops start<br>
> * Starting freepops daemon freepopsd [ OK ] <br>
> invoke-rc.d: initscript freepops, action "start" failed.<br>
> <br>
> $ ps aux | grep freepops<br>
> nobody 12303 0.0 0.0 5980 1708 ? S 10:35<br>
> 0:00 /usr/bin/freepopsd -p 110 -n -s nobody.nogroup<br>
> carlo 12690 0.0 0.0 3212 752 pts/0 R+ 10:36 0:00 grep<br>
> freepops<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> So that package "freepops" is stopped and started successfully, but<br>
> invoke-rc.d claims that the actions failed.<br>
> This happens with every service in /etc/init.d/<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I installed the freepops package to investigate, and then run the following<br>
commands:<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>root@nomad:/home/kelmo# invoke-rc.d freepops start<br>
Starting freepops daemon: freepopsd.<br>
root@nomad:/home/kelmo# invoke-rc.d freepops stop<br>
Stopping freepops daemon: freepopsd.<br>
root@nomad:/home/kelmo#<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The output look a little different to yours, and I cannot reproduce the<br>
failure.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Thanks, Kel.</p></body></html>