[Bug 1481737] [NEW] HAProxy init script is not working properly

[Peter G. Marczis]

Public bug reported:

In case you have more than one process enabled in the haproxy config, the init script fails to stop all of those processes.
So to clarify you need to have this in your haproxy.cfg:

"""
...
global
        maxconn         32000
        ulimit-n        65536
        user            haproxy
        group           haproxy
        nbproc          2

...
"""

the problem is more visible if you set the nbproc to higher number.

service haproxy stop --> will only stop on of the haproxy processes.

The problem is so that start-stop-daemon can't handle pid files with multiple lines. Only stopping the first one. HAProxy does write all the pids started by itself into the pid file, so the problem is not in HAProxy, but in the start-stop-daemon or more likely in the init scrip of haproxy.
One solution or workaround is to remove pidfile option of start-stop-daemon in the init script, than it wil work as killall and will stop the haproxy processes properly.

To proof you can try this sequence:

service haproxy start #if its not running
ps ax | grep haproxy | grep -v grep | wc -l #this should report 2
service haproxy restart
ps ax | grep haproxy | grep -v grep | wc -l #this will report 3

The workaround as a diff:
root at ubi1:/opt# diff /etc/init.d/haproxy /etc/init.d/haproxy.orig 
62c62
<               --retry 5 --exec $HAPROXY || ret=$?
---
>               --retry 5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $HAPROXY || ret=$?

extra infos:
root at ubi1:/opt# lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release:        14.04

root at ubi1:/opt# apt-cache policy haproxy
haproxy:
  Installed: 1.4.24-2ubuntu0.2
  Candidate: 1.4.24-2ubuntu0.2
  Version table:
     1.5.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1 0
        100 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.4.24-2ubuntu0.2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.4.24-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

** Affects: haproxy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: haproxy

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  HAProxy init script is not working properly

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