Bug 55437

Summary:	xinetd misses some CHLD signals
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Kent <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	xinetd	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	redhat-bugzilla
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Description Kent 2001-10-31 06:08:08 UTC

Description of Problem:
My tftp server for which I'm using for network booting periodically hangs
the netbooting client machine during TFTP transfers.  When I check the TFTP
server there is a in.tftpd zombie which is a child of xinetd.  If I "kill
-CHLD `pidof xinetd`" before the client times out, netbooting proceeds
normally.  So it appears that xinetd fails to respond to a CHLD signal
sometimes.  I'm not completely sure that this is an xinetd bug and not a
tftpd bug, however I didn't have any problems with the inetd/tftp-server
combo on RedHat Linux 6.2.  I saw similar behavior with xinetd/tftpd on
RedHat Linux 7.0.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xinetd-2.3.3-1

How Reproducible:
Unknown how to reproduce reliably.

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-11-06 20:29:58 UTC

Could you take a look at #49132 and try the remedies there?

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-12-01 00:07:43 UTC

Can you try the rpms at http://people.redhat.com/teg/xinetd/ ?

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-07-25 23:29:25 UTC

Closing due to lack of feedback, reopen with new data if problem occurs with
current releases.