Version: 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** killproc function in /lib/lsb/init-functions is returning wrong status and pid file is getting removed by this function though the threads are still alive. There are similar issue on Ubuntu as well https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/+bug/1398622. Thanks! Praveen