[Dnsmasq-discuss] Android untracked pid on startup

[Simon Kelley]

On 08/10/14 16:42, Kyle Manna wrote:
> Your issue is definitely related to Android's init system.  Android
> has an init system (think extremely crippled systemd or launchd) that
> launches processes and restarts them when they die if so configured,
> among many other things.
> 
> The init system on Android is complaining that your dnsmasq parent
> process is exiting and the init system doesn't know anything about it.
> This is likely because it was launched manually by you or by something
> else in Android.  The process that generates the warning is the parent
> process that immediately exits after forking/daemonizing dnsmasq.  The
> daemonized dnsmasq would generate a the same message with a different
> PID should it exit/crash.  The message is mostly harmless, but
> suggests that you're not doing things the way Android init system
> expects.
> 
> To fix this, modify your /init.<device>.rc file to have a dnsmasq
> service.  You can start (or stop) the service with `start dnsmasq`.
> Should dnsmasq crash and die, the init system will detect this and
> restart it, unless oneshot is specified.  Do include the the '-d' flag
> (or better yet the '-k' flag) so that process stays in the foreground
                      ^^

This. -k is designed for use in this case, not -d.


Cheers,

Simon.

> and will signal it's caller (the init system) with a SIG_CHILD should
> it exit.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Bruno De Paoli
> <bruno.depaoli at bluetreesystems.com> wrote:
>> I’m running dnsmasq on an Android Gingerbread platform acting as a wifi
>> Access Point. When dnsmasq starts up I get the following
>>
>>
>>
>> init: untracked pid 2407 exited
>>
>>
>>https://www1.firstdirect.com/1/2/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDd-NQv1BDg2AXA3cP_2CXEFdDAwjQL8h2VAQAHpBRLQ!!/
>> I suspect it has something to do with dnsmasq changing its user id because
>> if I run it with dnsmasq –d then I don’t get this behaviour. Among other
>> things the –d option causes it to not change user Id. The dnsmasq process is
>> still running however and seems to behave so I’m unsure if this is really an
>> error. Here's the snippet of the 'ps' output, the pid of dmsmasq is always 1
>> higher than the pid in the message.
>>
>>
>>
>> app_20    2377  2083  93392  16024 ffffffff 6fd0c51c S com.cooliris.media
>>
>> nobody    2408  1     924    324   80206038 6fd0b45c S /system/bin/dnsmasq
>>
>> root      2409  2077  904    316   00000000 6fd0b45c R ps
>>
>>
>>
>> Having google'd this a bit it looks like an Android specific issue but there
>> is no definite explanation as to what can cause it.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this when running in an Android environment? Can anyone
>> suggest the cause?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bruno
>>
>>
>>https://www1.firstdirect.com/1/2/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDd-NQv1BDg2AXA3cP_2CXEFdDAwjQL8h2VAQAHpBRLQ!!/
>>
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