Comment 17 for bug 688550
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 688550] Re: portmap/statd can not be restarted | #17 |
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 08:34:05PM -0000, Steve Atwell wrote:
> portmap 6.0.0-1ubuntu2.3 restarts correctly even with open connections.
> However, when upgrading to portmap 6.0.0-1ubuntu2.3 from
> 6.0.0-1ubuntu2.2, portmap fails to restart if there's an open
> connection. (Because the old version wasn't using SO_REUSEADDR, the new
> version can't take over the port.) I'm not sure this can be avoided
> though.
It was discussed that the maintainer script should include a very long
timeout between stopping and restarting portmap on upgrade for this reason.
I don't know if this was implemented; I did argue that unless something like
this was implemented, we should not SRU for this issue alone, due to the
fact that the SRU itself triggers the problem.