Linux Daemon Stopping start-stop-daemon

Question

I have a daemon I am creating in linux. I created the init.d file and have successfully started the daemon process using

/etc/init.d/mydaemon start

When I try to stop it(with /etc/init.d/mydaemon stop), however, it stops successfully, but start-stop-daemon never seems to complete as evidenced by no echos occuring immediately after the call to start-stop-daemon

Verbose mode shows that it stopped the process, and looking at system monitor, it does stop the process.

Stopped mydaemon (pid 13292 13310).

Here is my stop function of the init.d file.

do_stop()
{
    # Return
    #   0 if daemon has been stopped
    #   1 if daemon was already stopped
    #   2 if daemon could not be stopped
    #   other if a failure occurred
    start-stop-daemon --stop --name $NAME -v
echo "stopped"#This is never printed and the script never formally gives shell back.
    RETVAL="$?"

    [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2

    # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
    # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
    # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
    # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
    # needed by services started subsequently.  A last resort is to
    # sleep for some time.
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON 
    [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
    # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.

    return "$RETVAL"
}

I am running this on virtual machine, does this affect anything?

Answer 1

Running on a virtual machine shouldn't affect this.
And I have no idea why this is happening or how it is taking over control of the parent script.

However, I just encountered this issue and discovered that if I do:

start-stop-daemon ... && echo -n

it will work as expected and relinquish control of the shell.

I have no idea why this works, but it seems to work.