On Thursday 16 April 2009 18:42:39 Carlo Aquilini wrote: > Hello, I discovered it during acpid upgrade that failed claiming that it > couldn't stop and restart the service (solved by momentarily > renaming /etc/init.d/acpid and then upgrading).
The output of the upgrade should be provided. > > > One example could be "freepops": > $ ps aux | grep freepops > carlo 8052 0.0 0.0 3212 752 pts/0 S+ 10:28 0:00 grep > freepops > nobody 15771 0.4 0.3 27936 7448 ? S 09:48 > 0:11 /usr/bin/freepopsd -p 110 -n -s nobody.nogroup > > $ sudo invoke-rc.d freepops stop > * Stopping freepops daemon freepopsd [ OK ] > invoke-rc.d: initscript freepops, action "stop" failed. > > $ ps aux | grep freepops > carlo 11644 0.0 0.0 3212 752 pts/0 R+ 10:34 0:00 grep > freepops > > $ sudo invoke-rc.d freepops start > * Starting freepops daemon freepopsd [ OK ] > invoke-rc.d: initscript freepops, action "start" failed. > > $ ps aux | grep freepops > nobody 12303 0.0 0.0 5980 1708 ? S 10:35 > 0:00 /usr/bin/freepopsd -p 110 -n -s nobody.nogroup > carlo 12690 0.0 0.0 3212 752 pts/0 R+ 10:36 0:00 grep > freepops > > > So that package "freepops" is stopped and started successfully, but > invoke-rc.d claims that the actions failed. > This happens with every service in /etc/init.d/ I installed the freepops package to investigate, and then run the following commands: r...@nomad:/home/kelmo# invoke-rc.d freepops start Starting freepops daemon: freepopsd. r...@nomad:/home/kelmo# invoke-rc.d freepops stop Stopping freepops daemon: freepopsd. r...@nomad:/home/kelmo# The output look a little different to yours, and I cannot reproduce the failure. Thanks, Kel.
