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task #4241: start option "-daemon" does not work anymore

Submitter:  Knocker <knocker>
Submitted:  Wed 08 Jun 2005 12:10:41 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Core Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  None Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Should Start On:  Sun 26 Jun 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC
Should be Finished on:  Sun 26 Jun 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC

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Wed 08 Jun 2005 12:10:41 AM UTC, comment #27: 

This item has been reassigned from the project mldonkey, a multi-networks file-sharing client bugs tracker to your tracker.

The original report is still available at bugs #11514

Following are the information included in the original report:

[field #0]                  Item ID: 11514
[field #1]                 Group ID: 1409
[field #2]              Open/Closed: Open
[field #3]                 Severity: 1 - Wish
[field #4]                  Privacy: Public
[field #5]                 Category: Core
[field #6]             Submitted by: knocker
[field #7]              Assigned to: None
[field #8]             Submitted on: Fre 07.01.2005 um 08:16
[field #9]                  Summary: start option "-daemon" does not work anymore
[field #10]      Original Submission: If you quit mldonkey with "kill" from telnet-Interface it don t saves the *.ini files.

Stopping mldonkey by Ctrl-C or "kill mlnet" has not this bug.
[field #11]                Closed on: Fre 27.05.2005 um 21:11
[field #12]               Item Group: Feature request
[field #13]                   Status: Postponed
[field #14]        Component Version: None
[field #15]         Platform Version: None
[field #16]          Reproducibility: None
[field #17]               Size (loc): None
[field #18]            Fixed Release: None
[field #19]          Planned Release: None
[field #20]                   Effort: 0.00
[field #24]                 Priority: 5 - Normal
[field #27]         Percent Complete: 0%
[field #29]                  Release: 2.5.30.15
[field #54]          Binaries Origin: None
[field #55]                 CPU type: None
[field #56]                      CPU: None
[field #57]     Custom Select Box #4: None
[field #58]     Custom Select Box #5: None
[field #59]     Custom Select Box #6: None
[field #60]     Custom Select Box #7: None
[field #61]     Custom Select Box #8: None
[field #62]     Custom Select Box #9: None
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spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Fri 27 May 2005 10:03:59 PM UTC, comment #26: 

transformed into feature request for later work

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Thu 26 May 2005 10:17:26 AM UTC, comment #25: 
spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Thu 26 May 2005 10:15:55 AM UTC, comment #24: 

"- the bug does not exist in 2.5.16w1"

I don´t think this is true. The patch below shows that also
this core prints "Core stopped" in its logfile when started
with "-daemon".
Yet the bug looks different, from the logfile:
===============================================================
26/ 5, 12:11:04: Core stopped
26/ 5, 12:11:04: Saving shared files and sources
26/ 5, 12:11:04: Options correctly saved
26/ 5, 12:13:35: Core stopped
26/ 5, 12:13:35: Saving shared files and sources
26/ 5, 12:13:35: Options correctly saved
===============================================================
--- ../cvs/knocker-2-5-16w1/src/daemon/driver/driverMain.ml     2005-05-19 00:13:15.000000000 +0200
+++ ./src/daemon/driver/driverMain.ml   2005-05-26 12:08:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -505,10 +505,10 @@
   CommonGlobals.print_localtime ();
   lprintf (_b "Core started\n");
   core_included := true;
-(*
+
   CommonGlobals.do_at_exit (fun _ -> lprintf "Core stopped\n");
   CommonGlobals.do_at_exit (fun _ -> CommonGlobals.print_localtime ());
-*)
+
   if not !keep_console_output then begin
       lprintf (_b "Disabling output to console, to enable: stdout true\n");
===============================================================
This is the result of the patch from 2004/04/06 which solved
another bug, so I still think removing "-daemon" is the way to
go as we have an easy replacement.

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Thu 19 May 2005 02:46:16 AM UTC, comment #23: 

Some new thoughts about that one:
- the bug does not exist in 2.5.16w1
- I think it was introduced in 2.5.18:
2004/04/06: Fabrice
  - CommonGlobals: only execute 'do_at_exit' in the main process, not
      in the forked ones (should solve bug #7738).

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Wed 18 May 2005 09:37:08 PM UTC, comment #22: 

Updated patch so it prints infos when "mlnet -daemon" was executed:
"Option -daemon was removed.
Use 'mlnet > /dev/null 2>&1 &' instead, exiting..."

The core will exit so users are forced to update their scripts.

Most users won´t notice as most common distros don´t use that function anyway.

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Wed 18 May 2005 09:08:51 PM UTC, comment #21: 

Here is a summary how MLDonkey is started on some distros:

Gentoo (mldonkey.initd): /usr/bin/mlnet &>${LOG} &

Debian: uses /usr/bin/mldonkey-server which daemonizes mlnet itself with "--daemon" option

Fedora(ATrpms): http://dl.atrpms.net/production/sources/fedora-4-i386/atrpms/mldonkey-2.5.28.1-43.rhfc3.92.at.src.rpm
exec /usr/@lib@/mldonkey/mlnet >> /mldonkey.log 2>&1 < /dev/null" &

PLD: ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/SRPMS/SRPMS/mldonkey-2.5.30.1-1.src.rpm
exec $MLDONKEY_PATH > ${LOG:-/dev/null} 2>&1

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Wed 18 May 2005 09:34:34 AM UTC, comment #20: 

As I wrote in comment #7 starting the core with

mlnet > /dev/null 2>&1 &

works without problems. Having a function which causes data loss
is also not a good deal. I spent already two hours in debugging
but did not succeed. If no one comes up with a better solution
package maintainers should change to the other way starting the core.

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Wed 18 May 2005 07:21:53 AM UTC, comment #19: 

removing functionality used by those who dont use/have init scripts for mldonkey isnt very user friendly and is a wontfix and not a fix

Anonymous
Tue 17 May 2005 08:17:38 PM UTC, comment #18: 

I think we should drop "-daemon", patch attached.

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Tue 17 May 2005 08:07:33 PM UTC, comment #17: 

It seems the core goes through the stop process once it is started.

gentoo a # ps axHu | grep mlnet
root      2970  0.7  2.8  31896 18112 ?        Ssl  21:58   0:03 ./mlnet -daemon
root      2970  0.0  2.8  31896 18112 ?        SNsl 21:58   0:00 ./mlnet -daemon

Process 2969 does not exist anymore, so I think the main thread
is dropped immediatly after core start because when "MlUnix.detach_daemon ()"
is called the core already is threaded. See the comment in the code:
" (* Question: is-it not to late to go in background ? Is-it possible that
we have started some threads already ? What happens then ? *)"

The answer to one is yes, two also, three? Core stops main thread and produces this bug.

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Tue 17 May 2005 08:05:07 PM UTC, comment #16: 

From logfile:

Welcome to MLdonkey
Starting with pid 2969
Options correctly saved on localtime: 17/ 5, 21:58:10
Core started on localtime: 17/ 5, 21:58:10
Disabling output to console, to enable: stdout true


threads are enabled!!

Options correctly saved on localtime: 17/ 5, 21:58:10
 on localtime: 17/ 5, 21:58:10
Core stopped
Core stopped on localtime: 17/ 5, 21:58:10

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Tue 17 May 2005 08:00:57 PM UTC, comment #15: 

It seems daemon´izing the core does not work properly. For debugging I tested this patch:

--- ./src/daemon/driver/driverMain.ml   2005-05-17 21:34:42.000000000 +0200
+++ ./src/daemon/driver/driverMain.ml   2005-05-17 21:39:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -659,10 +659,10 @@
           ()
         end else
               close_log ();
-
+
+    if BasicSocket.has_threads () then lprintf "\n\nthreads are enabled!!\n\n";

 (* Question: is-it not to late to go in background ? Is-it possible that
 we have started some threads already ? What happens then ? *)
       if !daemon then MlUnix.detach_daemon ()
     end
-

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Mon 09 May 2005 12:58:54 PM UTC, comment #14: 
spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Mon 09 May 2005 11:42:35 AM UTC, comment #13: 

With MinGW core CTRL+C does not save ini files and config_files_space.tmp is not deleted.

Of course it does not because in ./src/config/mingw/mlUnix.ml
let set_signal signal f = ()

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Thu 14 Apr 2005 10:45:49 PM UTC, comment #12: 

the problem is still in 2-5-30-5
I started with
#./mlnet -log_file log -deamon

end of log file:

>Core started on localtime: 15/ 4, 00:39:06
>Disabling output to console, to enable: stdout true
>Options correctly saved on localtime: 15/ 4, 00:39:08
> on localtime: 15/ 4, 00:39:08
>Core stopped
>Core stopped on localtime: 15/ 4, 00:39:08


the temp file "config_files_space.tmp" is gone
BUT the core is running

Anonymous
Fri 01 Apr 2005 05:45:58 PM UTC, comment #11: 

kempston and whoever had/has this problem: could you please check if the problem, that you ini files are not saved, is fixed in 2.5.30ac ?

Amorphous <amorphous>
Wed 16 Mar 2005 09:08:11 PM UTC, comment #10: 
Amorphous <amorphous>
Wed 16 Mar 2005 09:04:32 PM UTC, comment #9: 

perhaps my revision 228 fixes some of these problems.
https://opensvn.csie.org/viewcvs.cgi?root=mlnet&rev=228&view=rev

Amorphous <amorphous>
Thu 03 Mar 2005 01:19:42 PM UTC, comment #8: 


"from driverMain.ml:

CommonGlobals.do_at_exit (fun _ ->
BasicSocket.close_all ();
Sys.remove security_space_filename;
DriverInteractive.save_config ();

CommonGlobals.print_localtime ();
lprintf (_b "Core stopped\n"));

These commands should be executed every time the core is stopped, regardless if through process signals (SIGTERM etc.), the "kill"-command or CTRL+C
"

These commands are probably not executed everytime the core is stopped ...

Currently I am lacking time, to take a closer look at it and debug it ... however:

The first command should -better must- fail with an exception (permission denied), if mldonkey is stared with the -run_as_user or -run_as_uid options.
Remember, a setuid can only be done with root-privileges and the sockets are bound prior the setuid with root-privileges. Socket-binding with root priviledges while not running the core with root privileges is the purpose of the above options, right?
... I bet due to an exception the game is over for the remaining commands then ...

Not sure about a plain -daemon option, without an additional setuid, a plain -daemon should save the ini-files.

One can check the neccessary permissions to close the sockets in different startup-configurations with:

ls -al /proc/$(($(ps -C mlnet -o pid --no-header f|head -n1)))/fd|grep socket


Fritz Mock <surround>
Thu 10 Feb 2005 12:23:15 PM UTC, comment #7: 

It seems that "-daemon" is the reason why ini files are not saved. Here I normally start mlnet like this:

/usr/local/bin/nice -n 10 /usr/local/bin/chroot /mnt/mlnet /mlnet > /dev/null 2>&1 &

so, no "-daemon", thats the reason I never experienced that bug...

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Thu 10 Feb 2005 06:41:24 AM UTC, comment #6: 

config_files_space.tmp is gone after kill

starting: mlnet -daemon
          --> *.ini not saved & no "Core stopped" in logfile
starting: mlnet -stdout
          --> *.ini saved & and "Core stopped" on console

Anonymous
Tue 08 Feb 2005 07:48:21 PM UTC, comment #5: 

from driverMain.ml:

  CommonGlobals.do_at_exit (fun _ ->
      BasicSocket.close_all ();
      Sys.remove security_space_filename;
      DriverInteractive.save_config ();

      CommonGlobals.print_localtime ();
      lprintf (_b "Core stopped\n"));

These commands should be executed every time the core is stopped, regardless if through process signals (SIGTERM etc.), the "kill"-command or CTRL+C

Do you get any messages in logfile (try starting with ./mlnet -stdout) when you issue the kill command in telnet interface?

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Tue 08 Feb 2005 07:37:06 PM UTC, comment #4: 

I tried it with 2-5-28r ten times or more and each time the inis
were saved wken "kill" was issued through telnet, HTML or sancho.

What about config_files_space.tmp?
Is this file deleted when you kill the core?

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Tue 08 Feb 2005 10:40:29 AM UTC, comment #3: 

I can vertify this bug, tried it several times.
version 2-5-28-r

Anonymous
Wed 19 Jan 2005 03:37:27 PM UTC, comment #2: 

I tried it several times before posting this bug.

My stats are posted here:
http://mldonkey.org/portal/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=5166

And Surround confirmed it.

Knocker <knocker>
Mon 10 Jan 2005 06:24:21 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Can´t confirm that bug with 2-5-28m. Actually I never saw this bug.

Two files compared:
- before killing the core
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2653089 Jan 10 19:13 file_sources.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2632173 Jan 10 18:53 file_sources.ini.old
- after killing the core on 7:21pm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2662071 Jan 10 19:21 file_sources.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2653089 Jan 10 19:13 file_sources.ini.old

Here the core directory before killing the core via telnet:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     65534        1024 Jun 28  2004 .mldonkey
drwxr-xr-x    2 mlnet    mlnet        1024 Dec 14 13:41 backup
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1349 Jan 10 19:13 bittorrent.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1349 Jan 10 18:53 bittorrent.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            1 Nov 16 15:13 comments.met
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     10485760 Jan 10 12:33 config_files_space.tmp
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug 13 09:31 dev
-rw-r--r--    1 root     65534        1685 Dec  4 16:47 directconnect.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        11102 Jan 10 19:13 donkey.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        11102 Jan 10 18:53 donkey.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        22377 Jan 10 19:13 downloads.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        22377 Jan 10 18:53 downloads.ini.old
drwxr-xr-x    2 mlnet    mlnet        1024 Feb 10  2004 etc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1303 Jan 10 19:13 fasttrack.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1303 Jan 10 18:53 fasttrack.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          951 Jan 10 19:13 fileTP.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          951 Jan 10 18:53 fileTP.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2653089 Jan 10 19:13 file_sources.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2632173 Jan 10 18:53 file_sources.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       607369 Jan 10 19:13 files.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       607310 Jan 10 18:53 files.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          116 Jan 10 19:13 friends.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          116 Jan 10 18:53 friends.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1793 Jan 10 19:13 gnutella.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1793 Jan 10 18:53 gnutella.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2197 Jan 10 19:13 gnutella2.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2197 Jan 10 18:53 gnutella2.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2520205 Jan  9 06:45 guarding.p2p
drwxr-xr-x    2 mlnet    mlnet        1024 May 30  2004 lib
-rw-------    1 root     root         3370 Jan  4 18:50 messages.log
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     65534         916 Nov 16 15:13 mldonkey_submit
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      4042984 Jan 10 12:32 mlnet
-rwxr--r--    1 root     65534         291 Nov 16 15:13 mlsubmit.reg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     65534          48 Jan 10 19:13 onlinesig.dat
-rw-r--r--    1 root     65534        1260 Dec  4 16:47 opennap.ini
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Dec  4 16:48 searches
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2095 Jan 10 19:13 searches.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2095 Jan 10 18:53 searches.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        60413 Jan 10 19:13 servers.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        60478 Jan 10 18:53 servers.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        61025 Jan 10 19:13 shared_files_new.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        61025 Jan 10 18:53 shared_files_new.ini.old
drwxr-xr-x    8 mlnet    mlnet        1024 Aug 11 01:24 shares
-rw-r--r--    1 root     65534        1270 Dec  4 16:47 soulseek.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1521 Jan 10 19:13 stats.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1521 Jan 10 18:53 stats.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10113 Jan 10 19:13 stats_mod.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10113 Jan 10 18:53 stats_mod.ini.old
drwxr-xr-x    5 mlnet    mlnet        2048 Jun 21  2004 torrents

Here the directory after killing the core:

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     65534        1024 Jun 28  2004 .mldonkey
drwxr-xr-x    2 mlnet    mlnet        1024 Dec 14 13:41 backup
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1349 Jan 10 19:21 bittorrent.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1349 Jan 10 19:13 bittorrent.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            1 Nov 16 15:13 comments.met
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug 13 09:31 dev
-rw-r--r--    1 root     65534        1685 Dec  4 16:47 directconnect.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        11102 Jan 10 19:21 donkey.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        11102 Jan 10 19:13 donkey.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        22377 Jan 10 19:20 downloads.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        22377 Jan 10 19:13 downloads.ini.old
drwxr-xr-x    2 mlnet    mlnet        1024 Feb 10  2004 etc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1303 Jan 10 19:21 fasttrack.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1303 Jan 10 19:13 fasttrack.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          951 Jan 10 19:21 fileTP.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          951 Jan 10 19:13 fileTP.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2662071 Jan 10 19:21 file_sources.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2653089 Jan 10 19:13 file_sources.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       607311 Jan 10 19:21 files.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       607369 Jan 10 19:13 files.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          116 Jan 10 19:21 friends.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          116 Jan 10 19:13 friends.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1793 Jan 10 19:21 gnutella.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1793 Jan 10 19:13 gnutella.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2197 Jan 10 19:21 gnutella2.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2197 Jan 10 19:13 gnutella2.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      2520205 Jan  9 06:45 guarding.p2p
drwxr-xr-x    2 mlnet    mlnet        1024 May 30  2004 lib
-rw-------    1 root     root         3370 Jan  4 18:50 messages.log
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     65534         916 Nov 16 15:13 mldonkey_submit
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      4042984 Jan 10 12:32 mlnet
-rwxr--r--    1 root     65534         291 Nov 16 15:13 mlsubmit.reg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     65534          48 Jan 10 19:20 onlinesig.dat
-rw-r--r--    1 root     65534        1260 Dec  4 16:47 opennap.ini
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Dec  4 16:48 searches
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2095 Jan 10 19:21 searches.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2095 Jan 10 19:13 searches.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        60438 Jan 10 19:21 servers.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        60413 Jan 10 19:13 servers.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        61025 Jan 10 19:20 shared_files_new.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        61025 Jan 10 19:13 shared_files_new.ini.old
drwxr-xr-x    8 mlnet    mlnet        1024 Aug 11 01:24 shares
-rw-r--r--    1 root     65534        1270 Dec  4 16:47 soulseek.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1521 Jan 10 19:20 stats.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1521 Jan 10 19:13 stats.ini.old
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10113 Jan 10 19:20 stats_mod.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10113 Jan 10 19:13 stats_mod.ini.old
drwxr-xr-x    5 mlnet    mlnet        2048 Jun 21  2004 torrents

spiralvoice <spiralvoice>
Group administrator
Wed 08 Jun 2005 12:10:41 AM UTC, original submission:  

If you quit mldonkey with "kill" from telnet-Interface it don't saves the *.ini files.

Stopping mldonkey by Ctrl-C or "kill mlnet" has not this bug.

Knocker <knocker>

 

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file #3666:  no-daemon-reverse.patch added by amorphous (3KiB - text/x-patch - reverse of the applied patch that removed the daemon argument)
file #3665:  no_daemon.patch added by spiralvoice (3KiB - application/octet-stream - updated version)

 

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2005-07-08 spiralvoice CategoryNone Core
2005-06-26 spiralvoice SummaryReassigned item: start option &quot;-daemon&quot; does not work anymore start option "-daemon" does not work anymore
2005-06-08 spiralvoice Reassign itemFrom group mldonkey, a multi-networks file-sharing client, bugs tracker To group mldonkey, a multi-networks file-sharing client, task tracker

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