Debian Bug report logs - #708870
mldonkey-server: drops startup output

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ygrek <ygrek@autistici.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: mldonkey-server: drops startup output

Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 18:11:36 +0800

Source: mldonkey-server
Version: 3.1.2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

See the following upstream bugs :
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?31021
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37003

MLDonkey outputs startup errors to stderr, before opening the logfile.
Debian init script starts mlnet via start-stop-daemon, effectively
discarding all stderr output. As a result any startup errors leave the
user guessing what was the reason of the failure without any traces..
AFAIK other distros redirect mldonkey output to the log, and this
problem is avoided. See the proposed patch (lightly tested) :

diff --git a/debian/mldonkey-server.init b/debian/mldonkey-server.init
index c5f8901..c190f06 100644
--- a/debian/mldonkey-server.init
+++ b/debian/mldonkey-server.init
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ case "$1" in
     WRAPPER_OPTIONS="$WRAPPER_OPTIONS --user $USER"
 
     start-stop-daemon --start $WRAPPER_OPTIONS \
-    --pidfile $PIDFILE --background --exec $EXEC \
-    -- -log_file $SERVERLOG -pid $PIDDIR 2>&1
+    --pidfile $PIDFILE --background --no-close --exec $EXEC \
+    -- -log_file $SERVERLOG -pid $PIDDIR >>$SERVERLOG 2>&1
 
     StartErrorCheck

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Message #10 received at 708870-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org>

To: 708870-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#708870: fixed in mldonkey 3.1.5-1

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:03:55 +0000

Source: mldonkey
Source-Version: 3.1.5-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mldonkey, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 708870@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org> (supplier of updated mldonkey package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:37:41 +0100
Source: mldonkey
Binary: mldonkey-server mldonkey-gui
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 3.1.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers <debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org>
Description: 
 mldonkey-gui - Graphical frontend for mldonkey based on GTK+
 mldonkey-server - Door to the 'donkey' network
Closes: 647719 708870
Changes: 
 mldonkey (3.1.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Mehdi Dogguy ]
   * New upstream release.
   * Redirect startup output into the log file (Closes: #708870)
 .
   [ Peter Eisentraut ]
   * Add support for "status" action to mldonkey-server init script (Closes: #647719)
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