Package: dpkg
Version: 1.14.7
Severity: minor
File: /sbin/start-stop-daemon

Hi,

$ sudo /sbin/start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/ser2net.pid --retry 5 
--quiet --oknodo --verbose
Stopped process in pidfile /var/run/ser2net.pid' (pid 15061).
/sbin/start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 15061: No such process

The daemon is, however, dead since the first kill attempt killed it
successfully. s-s-d did not look at the daemon, but at the pidfile.

This is a rather common cause of grief since /lib/lsb/init-function's
killproc uses --retry 5 if no Signal is explicitly given on the
command line.

I have also filed a bug against lsb-base (#451529) for this to be
addressed in killproc as well.

Greetings
Marc


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