Bug 217320

Summary: avahi init file does not clean properly after itself
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component: avahiAssignee: Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2006-11-27 00:46:18 UTC
Description of problem:

In /etc/rc.d/init.d

# ./avahi-daemon start
Starting Avahi daemon:                                     [  OK  ]
# ./avahi-daemon status
Avahi daemon is running
# pgrep -f -l avahi-d
8900 avahi-daemon: running [dyna0.local]
8901 avahi-daemon: chroot helper process

So far so good.  But now

# ./avahi-daemon stop
Shutting down Avahi daemon:                                [  OK  ]
# cat /var/run/avahi-daemon/pid
8900
# ./avahi-daemon start
Starting Avahi daemon: Process 8900 died: No such process; removing PID file.
(/var/run/avahi-daemon//pid)
                                                           [  OK  ]

and similar stuff for './avahi-daemon restart', of course.

The issue is simple. /etc/rc.d/init.d/avahi-daemon script instead of
using 'killproc()' function is doing just '$AVAHI_BIN -k' and that leaves
behind a pid file for an already stopped process.

Another possibility - as '$AVAHI_BIN -D' clearly creates on its own 
/var/run/avahi-daemon/pid file then '$AVAHI_BIN -k' should take care
about cleaning it up on a succesful completion.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
avahi-0.6.11-6.fc6

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Michal Jaegermann 2006-12-01 23:17:39 UTC
Does not happen with avahi-0.6.15-3.fc7.