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Bug 1314733

Summary: [WALA][rhel6]execute "service waagent start" twice will create two waagent daemon processes
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Yuxin Sun <yuxisun>
Component: WALinuxAgentAssignee: Yue Zhang <yuezha>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.7CC: anderson, huishao, jinmiao, jjarvis, leiwang, lic_interop, lizzha, mingzhan, wshi, yuezha, yuxisun
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Last Closed: 2016-08-10 09:30:14 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1359574, 1366045, 1387784    

Description Yuxin Sun 2016-03-04 11:19:22 UTC
Description of problem:
Every time we execute "service waagent start" it will create a daemon
process. If we execute "service waagent start" several times, there will be
more than one "python /usr/sbin/waagent -daemon" processes.
And running "service waagent stop" can only stop the latest process.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
WALinuxAgent-2.0.16-1.el6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Prepare a VM with WALinuxAgent package installed.
# ps aux|grep waagent, there should be one "python /usr/sbin/waagent -daemon"
processes.
2. Excute "service waagent start".
3. Check the number of waagent daemon process.
# ps aux|grep waagent

Actual results:
There're two "python /usr/sbin/waagent -daemon" processes.

Expected results:
There's only one "python /usr/sbin/waagent -daemon" process.
No matter how many times we execute the start command, there should be only
one waagent daemon process.

Additional info:
rhel7 doesn't have this issue.

Comment 3 Yuxin Sun 2016-08-10 09:30:14 UTC
Fixed in WALinuxAgent-2.1.5. Verify and close it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1360493 ***