Bug#713967: apache2-bin: daemon doesn't close all fds on fork - which causes postinst with debconf to hang

Package: apache2 Version: 2.2.22-13+deb7u4 Followup-For: Bug #713967 I filed https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57671 with Apache-APR for this issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign

Bug#713967: apache2-bin: daemon doesn't close all fds on fork - which causes postinst with debconf to hang

severity 713967 wishlist thanks Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2013, 14:37:40 schrieb Markus Frosch: Though in terms of closing fds when forking a daemon I'd like to point at the following tutorial: http://www.fifi.org/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html#AEN198 [quote] Your postinst uses debconf and

Bug#713967: apache2-bin: daemon doesn't close all fds on fork - which causes postinst with debconf to hang

On Monday 01 July 2013, Markus Frosch wrote: Hey Arno, I'm not even sure this is a bug at all. Beyond, it is definitely not a blocker for the Apache transition, or let me rephrase: This list of blocking bugs is not what you think it is meant for. It's definetly a bug for me because

Bug#713967: apache2-bin: daemon doesn't close all fds on fork - which causes postinst with debconf to hang

Hey Stefan, I don't think this can be fixed in apache itself. There is not even a portable way to close all FDs. On Linux you can look in /proc/$PID/fd, but I doubt that works on kfreebsd or hurd. Your postinst scripts should close the debconf FD explicitly. This could be done by calling

Bug#713967: apache2-bin: daemon doesn't close all fds on fork - which causes postinst with debconf to hang

Hey Arno, I'm not even sure this is a bug at all. Beyond, it is definitely not a blocker for the Apache transition, or let me rephrase: This list of blocking bugs is not what you think it is meant for. It's definetly a bug for me because it causes postinst scripts, that restart Apache2, to

Bug#713967: apache2-bin: daemon doesn't close all fds on fork - which causes postinst with debconf to hang

block 661958 by 713967 thanks Hey Apache2 Team, this is also an 2.4 transition blocker in my eyes. Please correct me if I'm wrong! Thanks Markus -- Markus Frosch mar...@lazyfrosch.de http://www.lazyfrosch.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#713967: apache2-bin: daemon doesn't close all fds on fork - which causes postinst with debconf to hang

unblock 661958 by 713967 thanks Hey Apache2 Team, this is also an 2.4 transition blocker in my eyes. Please correct me if I'm wrong! I'm not even sure this is a bug at all. Beyond, it is definitely not a blocker for the Apache transition, or let me rephrase: This list of blocking bugs is not

Bug#713967: apache2-bin: daemon doesn't close all fds on fork - which causes postinst with debconf to hang

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: apache2-bin Version: 2.4.4-6 Severity: important Hey Apache maintainers, while updating the icinga-web packaging for Apache 2.4 I noticed a problem with my postinst script. I'm using dbconfig-commong and debconf, which opens a fd (3) to