Bug 1039272 - bmc-watchdog startup reports success even if the service does not get started
Summary: bmc-watchdog startup reports success even if the service does not get started
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: freeipmi
Version: 6.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Josef Ridky
QA Contact: Rachel Sibley
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-07 12:39 UTC by Karel Volný
Modified: 2016-11-10 12:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-11-10 12:48:46 UTC
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Description Karel Volný 2013-12-07 12:39:58 UTC 
SSIA, trying to start bmc-watchdog on a machine that doesn't support that, it reports OK, despite the fact that on subsequent check, the status is dead.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
freeipmi-1.2.1-6.el6_5

Steps to Reproduce: 
choose an unsupported system - ppc, s390x
service bmc-watchdog start
service bmc-watchdog status

Actual results: 
Starting bmc-watchdog: [  OK  ]
bmc-watchdog dead but pid file exists

Expected results:
Starting bmc-watchdog: [FAILED]
bmc-watchdog is stopped
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