Bind9 init script reports unknown status when named is stopped

Binary package hint: bind9

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 9 15:05:38 2010
Dependencies:
 adduser 3.112ubuntu1
 base-files 5.0.0ubuntu20.10.04.1
 base-passwd 3.5.22
 bind9utils 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
 coreutils 7.4-2ubuntu2
 debconf 1.5.28ubuntu4
 debconf-i18n 1.5.28ubuntu4
 debianutils 3.2.2
 dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.1
 findutils 4.4.2-1ubuntu1
 gcc-4.4-base 4.4.3-4ubuntu5
 libacl1 2.2.49-2
 libattr1 1:2.4.44-1
 libbind9-60 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
 libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2
 libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2
 libcap2 1:2.17-2ubuntu1
 libcomerr2 1.41.11-1ubuntu2
 libdb4.8 4.8.24-1ubuntu1
 libdns64 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
 libgcc1 1:4.4.3-4ubuntu5
 libgcrypt11 1.4.4-5ubuntu2
 libgeoip1 1.4.6.dfsg-17
 libgnutls26 2.8.5-2
 libgpg-error0 1.6-1ubuntu2
 libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.2
 libisc60 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
 libisccc60 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
 libisccfg60 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
 libk5crypto3 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.2
 libkeyutils1 1.2-12
 libkrb5-3 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.2
 libkrb5support0 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.2
 libldap-2.4-2 2.4.21-0ubuntu5
 liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6
 liblwres60 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1
 libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2ubuntu3
 libpam-modules 1.1.1-2ubuntu5
 libpam0g 1.1.1-2ubuntu5
 libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-5ubuntu1
 libselinux1 2.0.89-4
 libssl0.9.8 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8
 libstdc++6 4.4.3-4ubuntu5
 libtasn1-3 2.4-1
 libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-6
 libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-2
 libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-7
 libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-1ubuntu1
 lsb-base 4.0-0ubuntu8
 lzma 4.43-14ubuntu2
 ncurses-bin 5.7+20090803-2ubuntu3
 net-tools 1.60-23ubuntu2
 netbase 4.35ubuntu3
 passwd 1:4.1.4.2-1ubuntu2
 perl-base 5.10.1-8ubuntu2
 sed 4.2.1-6
 sensible-utils 0.0.1ubuntu3
 tzdata 2010j-0ubuntu0.10.04
 zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
Package: bind9 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 [modified: usr/share/bind9/bind9-default.md5sum]
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-server 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
SourcePackage: bind9
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-server x86_64

Symptom:

When named is stopped, the "/etc/init.d/bnid9 status" command always returns 4 (unknown) instead of the correct 3 (stopped) status code. The cause of this behavior is the missing pid file, for the lsb scripts try to check the status by reading the process id from the pid file, and when this is missing they report unknown status.

The status check code from the init script:
---
status)
  ret=0
  status_of_proc -p ${PIDFILE} /usr/sbin/named bind9 2>/dev/null || ret=$?
  exit $ret
;;
---

The following workaround restored correct behavior:

---
status)
  ret=0
  if [ -f ${PIDFILE} ]; then
    status_of_proc -p ${PIDFILE} /usr/sbin/named bind9 2>/dev/null || ret=$?
  else
    status_of_proc /usr/sbin/named bind9 2>/dev/null || ret=$?
  fi
  exit $ret
;;
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