Bug 105845

Summary:	Deinstall directory installation kills running daemons
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	dmueller
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Thorsten Kukuk 2005-08-19 13:51:38 UTC

Best way to reproduce:

Install on a Beta2 the Beta2 into a directory with YaST2 (for example
for Xen).
Remove openssh from this installation:

rpm --root=/var/tmp/dirinstall -e openssh

chroot /var/tmp/dirinstall /etc/init.d/sshd stop

will be called. This calls killproc -p $PIDFILE -TERM /usr/bin/sshd
The file $PIDFILE does not exist.

Afterwards, all running sshd daemons are killed.

Same is true for all other packages.

Comment 1 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-08-19 13:55:43 UTC

This is a killproc bug. From LSB definition of "killproc -p":

"If the -p pidfile option is specified, and the named pidfile exists, a single 
  line at the start of the pidfile shall be read. If this line contains one or
more numeric values, separated by spaces, these values shall be used. If the -p
pidfile option is specified and the named pidfile does not exist, the functions
shall assume that the daemon is not running."

Our killproc does not assume that the daemon is not running, but instead kills
every running process with this name.

Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-22 09:22:00 UTC

Why is this a blocker?

Comment 3 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-08-22 09:47:22 UTC

Data lossage, connection crashes, unuseable system.

Comment 4 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-22 14:07:08 UTC

FIXED