Bug#730027: am-utils: init script fails to properly stop amd, leading to indefinite lock-up while shutting down

2013-11-20 Thread Timo Buhrmester
Package: am-utils Version: 6.2+rc20110530-3~mi Severity: important Tags: patch Attached is a patch to fix a problem causing the am-utils init script to get stuck when stopping, which typically means that the machine in question fails to shutdown or reboot. The root cause of this problem seems to

Bug#730027: am-utils: init script fails to properly stop amd, leading to indefinite lock-up while shutting down

2014-06-16 Thread Hauke Fath
I ran into this problem a few days ago: After upgrading from a 3.2 to a 3.13 kernel, restarts hung, and the pstree console output always had amd in the list. Looking closer at /etc/init.d/am-utils, like the bug submitter I found parts of the stop routine positively crufty, and thought about ch