+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #455540 +++ Description of problem: It looks like this is was likely addressed in bug 426382, however there is no fix incorporated into RH 4 (and presumably 5, though I have not verified). If named is stopped via rndc, it won't exit immediately and as such the 'start' of a 'restart' will be attempted before the prior instance had completed shutdown. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bind-9.2.4-28.0.1.el4 How reproducible: Get a reasonably loaded bind instance going (~200mb of heap in this case) and execute a restart via the stock init script. Most of the time the start will fail due to the daemon still exiting. A fix as trivial as: 128a129,131 > while pidofproc named >/dev/null 2>&1; do > sleep 1 > done 158,159d160 < # wait a couple of seconds for the named to finish closing down < sleep 2 ...resolves the issue. -- Additional comment from atkac on 2008-07-16 04:52 EST -- Right you are. Thanks for your report
Hm, after inspection this bug affects only RHEL4 systems. RHEL5 initscript is already sane. Closing