restorecond won't die

[Jim Bevier]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Chambers" <mike at miketc.com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
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Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: restorecond won't die


> On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 21:49 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
>> On logout of current rawhide, I notice restorecond fails to stop.  It
>> also fails to stop when issued the command 'service restorecond
>> restart'.  This is because the pid in /var/run/restorecond.pid is one
>> less than the actual pid, so the killproc() function
>> in /etc/init.d/functions can't find the pid to kill.
>>
>> [root at osprey ~]# cat /var/run/restorecond.pid
>> 2302
>> [root at osprey ~]# ps -ef | grep restorecond | grep -v grep
>> root      2303     1  0 21:35 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/restorecond
>>
>> Hand editing /var/run/restorecond.pid to make the value match the
>> running pid results in a successful restart.
>>
>> The end result of this problem is a new restorecond for every 'service
>> restorecond restart' invocation, since the 'stop' fails and the 'start'
>> succeeds.
>
> I saw the same thing, as well as a few other services too.  Must be
> something underlying more than that, that affects all of them.

I see the same thing with sendmail, sm-client, vsftpd, idmapd, acpi, 
automount, portmap, hidd, and restorcond.  Still looking for common thread.

Jim

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