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Description of problem:
When IPA replica install process does 2 consecutive httpd restarts, the second httpd restart may fail and thus IPA replica installation will fail.

See Bug 845405 for details.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
httpd-2.2.15-19.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
I think I managed to reproduce it with this simple sequence:

# service httpd restart && service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
                                                           [FAILED]

When I tested this sequence on Fedora 18, it worked fine. It just probably waited until the ports could be bound.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above - run  2 consecutive service restarts
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Actual results:
Second restart fails.

Expected results:
Second restart succeeds.

Additional info:

The answer is "Don't do that", I'm afraid.

With the sysV init scripts we can't make a strong guarantee that httpd is immediately in a state where the service script will always DTRT.  Adding a sleep(1) or similar should help, but if you are loading weird modules like mod_nss with complex startup processing, you might need more than 1 second delay.

With systemd we do make a strong guarantee and this kind of thing really works properly.