leftover startpar with mythtv-backend

[marillat@…]

A "startpar -f -- mythtv-backend" process hanging around when starting the server.

Apparently this bug is the same than this one ​http://bugs.debian.org/537182

MythTV from git 0.26 fixes branch updated the 28 June 2013, Debian unstable i386.

Christian

[Raymond Wagner]

This sounds like an issue with the Debian init scripts, and not something within our control.

[marillat@…]

Then could you tell me what is wrong ?

mythtv-backend script is called in the a default scrip used by other package.

If mythtv-backend doesn't support standart option this should be documented.

We use the script provided here :

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debian_init.d_mythbackend

Christian

[Raymond Wagner]

At the moment, the --daemon command line argument tells the application to close STDIN, and squelch all logging to STDOUT and STDERR. Proper daemonization also requires a "double fork" to orphan the application and cause it to be adopted by init. The common behavior if the init script even bothers to check anything, is for the init script to wait for the STDIN to close, terminate itself, and orphan the application in the process. If I had to guess, startpar is being very strict and waiting on either its child process to terminate, or STDOUT/STDERR to close, before it terminates.

[marillat@…]

I found a work around. If we add

# X-Interactive:     true

in the LSB header for the init script, then the startpar process is closed properly.