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system-tools-backends package

  1. Bug #298777
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 298777

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In , Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

I reported this at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-tools-backends/+bug/298777:

If I try to stop system-tools-backends after it was already stopped, I get an error. For example, if I run "sudo invoke-rc.d system-tools-backends" twice, I get:

chr1s@chris-desktop:~$ sudo invoke-rc.d system-tools-backends stop
 * Stopping System Tools Backends system-tools-backends [ OK ]
chr1s@chris-desktop:~$ sudo invoke-rc.d system-tools-backends stop
 * Stopping System Tools Backends system-tools-backends start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 7993: No such process
                                                                                    [ OK ]

This is because when I closed system-tools-backends the first time, it left a stale PID file in /var/run. Manually deleting /var/run/system-tools-backends.pid prevented the init script from failing again.