Package: needrestart Version: 2.11-4 Severity: normal After any upgrade, needrestart hangs, with a zombie child:
/-------- | root 929 27669 0 20:31 pts/2 00:00:00 aptitude install | root 930 929 0 20:31 pts/2 00:00:00 sh -c test -x /usr/lib/needrestart/apt-pinvoke && /usr/lib/needrestart/apt-pinvoke || true | root 931 930 0 20:31 pts/2 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /usr/sbin/needrestart | root 939 931 0 20:31 pts/2 00:00:00 [needrestart] <defunct> \-------- If I kill the perl process (931 above) my package upgrade completes successfully. It looks like it's not waiting properly for its children. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armel Kernel: Linux 3.16.7-ckt2-balti (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages needrestart depends on: ii dpkg 1.19.0.5 ii gettext-base 0.19.8.1-4 ii libintl-perl 1.26-2 ii libmodule-find-perl 0.13-1 ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.24-1 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.53-3 ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-1 ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.37-1+b2 ii perl 5.26.1-5 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages needrestart recommends: ii sysvinit-core 2.88dsf-59.10 Versions of packages needrestart suggests: pn needrestart-session | libnotify-bin <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/needrestart/notify.conf changed: NR_NOTIFYD_DISABLE_WRITE='1' NR_NOTIFYD_DISABLE_MAIL='1' -- no debconf information
