[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#417377: ntpd doesn't exit immediately when removing the package

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:16:24AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 03 avril 2007 à 20:22 +0200, Kurt Roeckx a écrit :
> > This looks like somehow start-stop-daemon thinks that daemon was already
> > running.  I can't see any other way you should get this error.  It's
> > also the behaviour I get when testing it.
> 
> Thanks for the hint, I found what went wrong. Before installing
> openntpd, I had mistakenly installed ntp instead and had to purge it.
> However it seems that ntpd doesn't exit immediately when the package is
> purged; it takes about one minute, if not more, before the process
> disappears.

In that case I think it's the resolver slave process that's still
running because resolving didn't work.  As far as I know, this is the
only case I saw a process still running after telling it to stop.  But
I wonder why it doesn't get killed if the parent gets killed.


PS: You currently might need to purge either openntpd or ntp.  The init
scripts check that /usr/sbin/ntpd exists, which exists in both packages,
and both scripts start ntpd and you really might end up with 2 daemons
running.  I'm still not sure what the best way to avoid this is.


Kurt