Re: selfmade package installation hangs
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 19:28 schrieb Tilman Koschnick:
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 14:36 +0200, Markus Schulz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > i'm debianizing a software system for my company.
> > this is my first attempt to debianize software and i have a problem
> > with installing one of the created packages.
> >
> > install output:
> > ****************************
> > nias@seat:~/source$ LC_ALL=C sudo dpkg -i
> > antzsystem-dispatcher_2.1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 82244
> > files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace
> > antzsystem-dispatcher 2.1 (using
> > antzsystem-dispatcher_2.1_i386.deb) ...
> > Stopping dispatcher: antzsystem.
> > Unpacking replacement antzsystem-dispatcher ...
> > Setting up antzsystem-dispatcher (2.1) ...
> > Starting dispatcher: ++: 2005-06-29 14:24:36 (19338:B7D1CA40)
> > dispatcher.cpp:296: Daemonize now...
> > Daemonize with logfile=/var/log/antzsystem/dispatcher.log and
> > pidfile=/var/run/antzsystem/dispatcher.pid
> > Now running all modules from /etc/antzsystem/init.d
> > <And now it hangs>
> > ****************************
> > the child process of /usr/share/debconf/frontend then becomes a
> > zombie. i don't understand why the install hangs after running the
> > postinst script (which runs fine and exit with 0) from the package
> > and use invoke-rc.d script which successfully starts the binary
> > (which daemonize himself). The program works successfully after
> > this, but the install process hangs.
>
> This snippet is taken from the end of another postinst script that
> starts a daemon, maybe it applies to your case as well:
>
> ------8<------
> # tell debconf we are done. otherwise, it hangs waiting for the
> daemon. db_stop;
>
> exit 0
> ------8<------
>
thanks, this works fine.
perhaps this could be applied automaticly if debhelper(dh_installinit)
postinst script generates invoke-rc.d code snippet?
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Markus Schulz
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