Bug#295915: apache2-common: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart is like totally broken.
Package: apache2-common
Version: 2.0.53-4
Severity: important
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart does not work. It always tells me it is already
running, then after a little while, apache2 just dies.
Looking at the init-script, it is caused by the following lines:
echo -n "Forcing reload of web server: Apache2"
apache_stop
sleep 10
$APACHE2CTL startssl
Not only is this racy, its also extremely annoying having to wait for a restart
based on a seemingly randomly chosen value.
Changing the sleep to 20 fixes the problem here, but this is still no real fix.
One way could be having a loop that runs once a second checking if apache2 is
dead; and time out with a error after 60 seconds or so. Several other packages
implements it this way (squid comes to mind).
Funny 10 seconds is too little on a 3Ggz p4 system with no real load...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-s0p1-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages apache2-common depends on:
ii apache2-utils 2.0.53-4 utility programs for webservers
ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-18 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-1 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libmagic1 4.12-1 File type determination library us
ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii net-tools 1.60-10 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii openssl 0.9.7e-2 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii ssl-cert 1.0-11 Simple debconf wrapper for openssl
-- no debconf information
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