[Bug 406397] Re: init: job stuck with expect fork/daemon when parent reaps child

[Tim Nicholas]

I've been bitten by this with squid after having to kill the squid
processes as a result of the upgrade process borking on 10.04 (LTS).

I was upgrading to this:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squid/2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu12.2
replacing squid 2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu12.

I assume I'm missing something, cos it looks a lot like I'm fucked and I
need to reboot to get squid to start from init again.

Surely not...

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Title:
  init: job stuck with expect fork/daemon when parent reaps child

Status in Upstart:
  Triaged
Status in “aiccu” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in PLD Linux Distribution:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi

  Wrong use of the expect fork stanza can create job with status
    job stop/killled, process nnn
  without any process nnn running on the system.

  As an example the following avahi.conf should have used
  "expect daemon", but will instead create a stuck job.

  stop on stopping dbus-system
  respawn
  expect fork
  exec avahi-daemon -D

  /Emil Renner Berthing