Bug 806226

Summary:	virt-who dead but pid file exists
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Hui Wang <huiwang>
Component:	virt-who	Assignee:	Radek Novacek <rnovacek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Entitlement Bugs <entitlement-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.9	CC:	khong, ovasik, wili
Target Milestone:	alpha
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Fixed In Version:	virt-who-0.7-1.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Hui Wang 2012-03-23 09:14:28 UTC

Description of problem:
There are two machine, machine1 and machine2.
Run "ssh root@$remote_machine1_ip "service virt-who restart"" on machine2, check the virt-who service status on machine1, it will report "virt-who dead but pid file exists". 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-who-0.5-5.el5
subscription-manager-0.98.14-1.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "ssh root@$remote_machine1_ip "service virt-who restart"" on machine2
2. Check the virt-who service status on machine1
  
Actual results:
virt-who dead but pid file exists

Expected results:
virt-who is running

Additional info:

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2012-04-02 13:10:24 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 3 Radek Novacek 2012-07-17 08:07:43 UTC

This bug has been fixed in virt-who-0.7-1.el5.

Comment 5 Hui Wang 2012-08-29 08:11:28 UTC

Moving to verified.

version:
virt-who-0.7-4.el5
subscription-manager-firstboot-1.0.13-1.el5
subscription-manager-1.0.13-1.el5
subscription-manager-gui-1.0.13-1.el5
python-rhsm-1.0.5-1.el5
katello-headpin-all-0.2.13-1.el6_2.noarch
candlepin-0.6.5-1.el6_2.noarch

Step:
1. Run "ssh root@$remote_machine1_ip "service virt-who restart"" on machine2

# ssh 10.66.13.64 "service virt-who restart"
root.13.64's password: 
Stopping virt-who: [  OK  ]
Starting virt-who: [  OK  ]
[root@localhost wanghui]# 

2. Check the virt-who service status on machine1
# service virt-who status
virt-who (pid  434) is running...

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-08 07:35:34 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0072.html