ddclient init script fails to stop process

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Confirming. Removing "--name" as process matching criterium for start-stop-daemon in init-script resolves the issue. The PID file should be sufficient.

Confirmed the work-around. Here's the changes as a diff:

$ apt-diff ddclient
--- /tmp/apt-diff_1001/extracted/ddclient/etc/init.d/ddclient 2012-08-09 17:33:15.000000000 -0700
+++ /etc/init.d/ddclient 2012-11-24 08:48:39.000000000 -0800
@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@
  # 1 if daemon was already running
  # 2 if daemon could not be started
  start-stop-daemon --test --start --quiet \
- --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME --startas $DAEMON \
+ --pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON \
   >/dev/null \
   || return 1

  start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
- --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME --startas $DAEMON \
+ --pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON \
   -- $OPTIONS \
   || return 2
 }
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
  # 2 if daemon could not be stopped
  # other if a failure occurred
  start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 \
- --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
+ --pidfile $PIDFILE
  return "$?"
 }

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This bug was fixed in the package ddclient - 3.8.1-1ubuntu2

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ddclient (3.8.1-1ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * debian/ddclient.NetworkManager
    - Use NetworkManager dispatcher to stop/start ddclient, fixes DNS lookup
      errors that caused checkins to fail (LP: #998700)
  * debian/ddclient.init
    - lintian reports missing runlevels for stop, adjusted to 0 1 6
  [ Tristan Schmelcher ]
  * debian/ddclient.init
    - ddclient init script fails to stop process (LP: #980409)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:41:53 -0400

Hi.

Although this thread shows the bug was fixed in the package ddclient@3.8.1-1ubuntu2, the last version in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS actualy is the 3.8.0-11.4ubuntu1. It is, the patch was not applyed to all supported Ubuntu versions.

I tested this and a similar patch as posted in the follow link, and all of them worked in Ubuntu 12.04: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ddclient/+bug/1241612

Can this bugfix be backported to the Ubuntu 12.04 version (3.8.0-11)?