On Thursday 26 November 2015 10:39:56 I wrote: > On Wednesday 25 November 2015 19:05:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 24/11/2015 17:24, Peter Humphrey wrote: > --->8 > > > > The installation-default file causes the start-stop-daemon to catch an > > > unexpected interrupt and report an error, even though the chronyd > > > process > > > continues to run. > > > > > > Any time I run 'strace -ff -o/tmp/chronyd.strace /etc/init.d/chronyd > > > start' the init process runs normally and I'm left with scores of > > > trace > > > files, none of which help because the stray interrupt wasn't detected. > > --->8 > > > Ugh, don't you just hate issues like that? The problem with "solutions" > > like start-stop-daemon is they have to deal with whatever the daemon > > feels like returning (an infinite number of permutations), so support > > for daemon is never complete. > > I've been offered one suggestion which will need me to make a local > overlay with a small code change. I'll try that and see what happens.
The problem turns out to have been caused by the init script specifying --background to start-stop-daemon, which conflicts with chronyd's own forking to the background - at least, it does on my Atom box so it could elsewhere too. Stand ready, bgo. -- Rgds Peter
