[Bug 568288] Re: init: main process can respawn even when the job is stopping

2012-11-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
Here's a far simpler patch - it just skips the respawn handling entirely (including all the failed stuff) if the job is being stopped anyway. I think this is probably right ** Patch added: upstart-1.2-respawn-pre-stop.patch

[Bug 1025973] Re: ureadahead appears to violate Apple patent 7607000

2012-07-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
I haven't read the patent in question, general advise by my employers is not to read them, but I can note a few particulars of ureadahead with regards to the date you quote: Development on ureadahead began in October 2009, it was based on Intel's sreadahead for which development began in November

[Bug 876626] Re: Unlocking the second crypto disk (/home) echos password on console

2012-04-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
-c1326 doesn't change the console handling, it merely changed the error case: - if (system_setup_console (CONSOLE_OUTPUT, (! restart)) 0) + if (system_setup_console (CONSOLE_OUTPUT, (! restart)) 0) { The Plymouth-safe console behavior was never committed upstream,

[Bug 880049] Re: 100% CPU usage in init if /dev/console is not available

2011-11-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
Please don't subscribe people to bugs without their permission -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880049 Title: 100% CPU usage in init if /dev/console is not available To manage

Re: [Bug 702283] Re: usb-creator doesn't create EFI-bootable USB sticks

2011-08-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
The latter bit isn't true; current Chrome OS developer firmware will allow you to boot any developer-signed USB stick. But it is true that these have to be laid out so that the Chrome OS firmware understands them, which means EFI, the particular GPT layout, etc. not as a standard El Torito image

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-04-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
pdf: in order to set SRU flags, I think you have to look at the bug from the Ubuntu POV ... check that the URL is of the form /ubuntu/source/+upstart/.. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 566326] Re: init: add --initdir=/etc/myinit

2011-03-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Package changed: ubuntu = upstart (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged = In Progress ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) = James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-03-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
Please don't change upstream tasks to Fix Committed unless the code is in trunk (lp:upstart) or Fix Released unless the code is in a released tarball. To track changes to Upstart in Natty, add an Ubuntu Task to the bug. ** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Released = In Progress -- You

[Bug 532366] Re: util: halt should not power off system unless called with -p/--poweroff

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~upstart-devel/upstart/trunk/revision/1270 ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged = Fix Committed ** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None = 1.1 ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) = Scott James Remnant (scott) -- You received this bug

[Bug 567068] Re: init: environ_valid() does not accept dot in key

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~upstart-devel/upstart/trunk/revision/1272 ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged = Fix Committed ** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None = 1.1 ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) = Scott James Remnant (scott) -- You received this bug

[Bug 707151] Re: init: keyboard-request event not emitted due to closing console fd too early

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/707151

[Bug 619269] Re: init: script stanza leaks file descriptor to child process

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619269

[Bug 604227] Re: util: make uninstall does not remove symlinks

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604227

[Bug 567068] Re: init: environ_valid() does not accept dot in key

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = New ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Low = Undecided -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 532366] Re: util: halt should not power off system unless called with -p/--poweroff

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = New ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Low = Undecided -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 522197] Re: init: shouldn't log a warning/error when a job fails with a status in normal exit

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522197

[Bug 183729] Re: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = New ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Low = Undecided -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183729

[Bug 728531] Re: chroot support is not reliable

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
I've marked the upstream task as Invalid since there is no chroot support upstream, and this is otherwise covered by #430224init: support chroots ** Changed in: upstart Status: Confirmed = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 711635] Re: init: post-start can cause respawn to hang

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Summary changed: - mysql update fails waiting for upstart job to respawn + init: post-start can cause respawn to hang ** Changed in: upstart Status: New = Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

Re: [Bug 728531] [NEW] chroot support is not reliable

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
I clearly didn't test this well enough ;-) On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:22 AM, James Hunt 728...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Public bug reported: Current natty chroot support does not seem to work reliably. Logging into a natty schroot as root and running initctl list shows:

Re: [Bug 616575] Re: support relation operators in env matches of start/stop conditions

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
The trouble with operators like , , etc. is that their meaning varies depending on your interpretation of the following string. It may be that dpkg-ish version comparisons are the right way forward here, since they split strings and numbers according to a well-defined spec that is actually almost

[Bug 705679] Re: initctl: meaningless message when the user is not allowed to perform a command

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 431239 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431239 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 431239 initctl: output better errors than D-Bus (e.g. for permission denied) * You can subscribe to bug 431239 by following this link:

[Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
Rolling back to In Progress since this hasn't actually landed in trunk yet ** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed = Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged = In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 616575] Re: init: support relation operators in env matches of start/stop conditions

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: New = Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided = Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616575 Title: init: support relation

[Bug 583512] Re: doc: better define job, service task

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Summary changed: - inconsistent terminology in man 5 init + doc: better define job, service task ** Changed in: upstart Status: New = Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided = Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 578108] Re: pppd persistent mode is not working

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
It seems that this has been assigned to the upstream Upstart project without a rationale for why this is not a bug in the Ubuntu configuration. Unless you're sure there is an /sbin/init *code bug*, the correct place for bug reports, even about boot, is in the appropriate Ubuntu package. This

[Bug 689820] Re: initscript emulation layer fails on start/stop/restart for jobs that don't spawn long lived processes

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
Moved to Ubuntu bug tracker ** Changed in: upstart Status: New = Invalid ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Project changed: upstart = null -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 703800] Re: init: restart command fails to restart main process when pre-stop stanza exists

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Summary changed: - restart command fails to restart main process when pre-stop stanza exists + init: restart command fails to restart main process when pre-stop stanza exists ** Changed in: upstart Status: Confirmed = Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided = Medium

[Bug 695220] Re: natty-alternate-amd64 fails to complete installation

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 348455 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348455 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 694772 Sudden reboot during server ISO install ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 348455 init: transfer state across re-exec * You can subscribe

[Bug 694772] Re: Sudden reboot during server ISO install

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 348455 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348455 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 348455 init: transfer state across re-exec * You can subscribe to bug 348455 by following this link:

[Bug 713796] Re: after reboot, tty bug on the login page

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
Moved bug to Ubuntu bug tracker ** Project changed: upstart = null ** Changed in: null Status: New = Invalid ** Also affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 711635] Re: init: post-start can cause respawn to hang

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Summary changed: - mysql update fails waiting for upstart job to respawn + init: post-start can cause respawn to hang ** Changed in: upstart Status: New = Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 430224] Re: init: support chroots

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged = In Progress ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) = James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430224 Title:

[Bug 728531] Re: chroot support is not reliable

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided = Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728531 Title: chroot support is not

[Bug 672067] Re: There is no bash-completion for the commands in upstart

2011-03-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released = Fix Committed ** Also affects: upstart Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: upstart Status: New = Fix Released ** Changed in:

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on .conf file in /etc/init

2011-03-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720573 Title: Segmentation fault on .conf file in /etc/init -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 183729] Re: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout

2011-03-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183729 Title: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout --

Re: [Bug 703800] Re: restart command fails to restart main process when pre-stop stanza exists

2011-02-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
Yeah there are quite a few bugs related to pre-stop scripts, they don't really work like any other, so there are definite gaps in the coverage On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, scm 703...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: I can confirm I see this behavior in upstart (0.6.5-8) on lucid. On several of

Re: [Bug 707479] Re: service service restart does not use an updated job configuration

2011-02-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
No, restart means to restart what you already have. If you restart a game, it means going back to the beginning of the game and starting it again. It doesn't mean potentially starting a new completely different game. Scott On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Thomas Schweikle

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on .conf file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
Confirmed; interestingly this doesn't seem to cause a kernel panic if the file already exists on startup, just on first creation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720573 Title:

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on .conf file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
The attached patch adds test cases to check for this case, along with a simpler similar test case for a file missing the .conf extension (which is tested elsewhere, but always worth checking again). This shows that the failure is an assertion: test:job_class.c:153: Assertion failed in

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on .conf file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
The reason it doesn't cause a panic on the reboot is because the file doesn't actually get to the filesystem! If it did, you wouldn't be able to boot again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on .conf file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
The best fix is in the filter, since it covers both. As well as just checking that there is a .conf extension, make sure that the previous character isn't / ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged = In Progress ** Patch added: conf-file-fix.patch

[Bug 183729] Re: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None = 1.0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183729 Title: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout -- kubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on .conf file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~upstart-devel/upstart/trunk/revision/1260 ** Changed in: upstart Status: In Progress = Fix Committed ** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None = 1.0 ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) = Scott James Remnant (scott) -- You received this bug

[Bug 715101] Re: pre-start script is executed before processing the event stopping ...

2011-02-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
This is definitely the intended behavior, the purpose of the pre-stop script is to allow the job to: - delay the stop - cancel the stop - send its own clean shutdown command before the TERM signal It's also not inconsistent if you think about it. The starting event happens before the

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2011-02-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
They definitely should be allowed, ssh is actually a canon example of why. Upstart should supervise the sshd daemon, not the login sub-process associated with a particular connection, and certainly not any processes being run inside the login session. Otherwise stop ssh would kill all user

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2011-02-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
, 2011 at 04:14:59AM -, Scott James Remnant wrote: They definitely should be allowed, ssh is actually a canon example of why. Upstart should supervise the sshd daemon, not the login sub-process associated with a particular connection, and certainly not any processes being run inside the login

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2011-02-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
They definitely should be allowed, ssh is actually a canon example of why. Upstart should supervise the sshd daemon, not the login sub-process associated with a particular connection, and certainly not any processes being run inside the login session. Otherwise stop ssh would kill all user

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2011-02-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
, 2011 at 04:14:59AM -, Scott James Remnant wrote: They definitely should be allowed, ssh is actually a canon example of why. Upstart should supervise the sshd daemon, not the login sub-process associated with a particular connection, and certainly not any processes being run inside the login

Re: OK [Bug 585908] Re: cross-comment events and *.conf files

2011-02-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
So one interesting thing about this is that if you design a system that complains about its configuration during boot, then you're complaining at the wrong person, the user. The user has no idea how the system boots, and should have no need to know. The system should boot regardless, and it

[Bug 707479] Re: service service restart does not use an updated job configuration

2011-02-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
This is this way by design, it allows for services to be restarted without a change of configuration. If you want to adopt the new configuration use: stop service ; start service ** Changed in: upstart Status: New = Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a

Re: [Bug 694772] Re: Sudden reboot during server ISO install

2011-02-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
I believe there's a bug open for the lack of state transfer? If not, we could repurpose this one? That being said, we should remember that state transfer should *not* be invoked by SIGTERM - so maybe it's worth keeping this one open to remind us of that. Scott On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:42 PM,

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2011-02-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
At least certified bugs can be documented, with certified workarounds. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:05 PM, ingo 672...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: ... freeze updates for 10.04.2 in order that we can get certification done That means we get certified BUGS - and that 10 months after release! --

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2011-02-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
At least certified bugs can be documented, with certified workarounds. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:05 PM, ingo 672...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: ... freeze updates for 10.04.2 in order that we can get certification done That means we get certified BUGS - and that 10 months after release! --

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2011-01-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
ingo: that's the way the Ubuntu release process works, I'm sorry that this is a surprise to you On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM, ingo 672...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: @Zippo, it is really a sad story with LTS-Lucid. I really don't understand how such a buggy release could pass QC (if there is

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2011-01-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
ingo: that's the way the Ubuntu release process works, I'm sorry that this is a surprise to you On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM, ingo 672...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: @Zippo, it is really a sad story with LTS-Lucid. I really don't understand how such a buggy release could pass QC (if there is

Re: [Bug 104525] Re: default ntp.conf should use pool.ntp.org servers

2011-01-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
Thanks for subscribing the Technical Board to this bug. Please add discussion of the default NTP Servers to the agenda for the next Technical Board meeting that you are able to attend, and we will discuss it with you there. Scott On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Xavier Robin

Re: [Bug 104525] Re: default ntp.conf should use pool.ntp.org servers

2011-01-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
Thanks for subscribing the Technical Board to this bug. Please add discussion of the default NTP Servers to the agenda for the next Technical Board meeting that you are able to attend, and we will discuss it with you there. Scott On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Xavier Robin

Re: [Bug 694772] Re: Sudden reboot during server ISO install

2011-01-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
A D-Bus interface to re-exec is the plan here. Scott On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Loïc Minier l...@dooz.org wrote: Hey Scott! We'd love your input on the best way for upstart's telinit to not SIGTERM what could possibly be a non-upstart init (this is particularly an issue with busybox as

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-01-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
at 8:53 AM, Scott James Remnant 94...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Because, believe it or not, it's not a very common use case - in the Debian and Ubuntu world, you're generally expected to uninstall services you don't need. Ah, but you want to use the service, you just don't want upstart to start

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-01-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
That's the exact plan, yes On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Bryan McLellan b...@loftninjas.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Scott James Remnant 94...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: The feature planned for the next release is the support of override files, which augment configuration

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
Do you often find that calling someone an asshole means they're more likely do something you want? I must try that sometime ;-) On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:36 AM, mikegrb mich...@thegrebs.com wrote: Sometimes users forget that some developers are assholes that don't care about how they wish to

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
Because, believe it or not, it's not a very common use case - in the Debian and Ubuntu world, you're generally expected to uninstall services you don't need. Also the Dpkg package manager *honours* deletes as a conffile change, so if you simply delete the job (or change its extension) it won't

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
Indeed, all of those things work. The reason for the .conf suffix is because editors frequently write temporary working files into the same directory as the original file, they also write backup files, and package managers frequently write old or new files into the directory as well. You end up

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
The expected to uninstall comes from Debian Policy, btw. It probably shouldn't be a surprise that Debian still to this day doesn't provide a canon way to disable init scripts from running on boot aside from uninstalling the package. On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:49 PM, paul fox

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
Sometimes people forget that normal users don't care one iota about what a service is, let alone which are running on their machine On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:20 AM, plouf 94...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: it's not a very common use case I wanted to desactivate avahi-daemon without uninstalling

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
, 2010-12-29 at 00:06 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: Are you sure?  I can't find that code at all - it looks like it's been lost somehow quite certain.. its a bit tricky to find it in bzr, but this will give it to you for, say, maverick: $ bzr branch lp:ubuntu/maverick/upstart maverick $ cd

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
I've no idea why that revision got dropped from the Ubuntu package, I did a bit of investigation and it seems to vanish about the point we switched to the auto-importer based packages. My only guess is that bzr undid the cherry-pick as part of a merge. Right, eglibc's postinst should definitely

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
, 2010-12-29 at 00:06 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: Are you sure?  I can't find that code at all - it looks like it's been lost somehow quite certain.. its a bit tricky to find it in bzr, but this will give it to you for, say, maverick: $ bzr branch lp:ubuntu/maverick/upstart maverick $ cd

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
I've no idea why that revision got dropped from the Ubuntu package, I did a bit of investigation and it seems to vanish about the point we switched to the auto-importer based packages. My only guess is that bzr undid the cherry-pick as part of a merge. Right, eglibc's postinst should definitely

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
Note that in Upstart 0.6.7, you can disable a job with: echo manual /etc/init/JOB.conf (this bug isn't completely fixed yet, because we want to allow a method to do that without modifying the original file) On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:59 PM, plouf 94...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: When does

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: This makes sense, because telinit u just sends SIGTERM to upstart, which has no handler, as it was removed by revision 977, and doesn't seem to have been added back. Since SIG_DFL signals are not delivered to init, I'm not

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
Are you sure? I can't find that code at all - it looks like it's been lost somehow On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 14:22 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: This makes sense, because telinit u just sends SIGTERM to upstart, which has no handler, as it was removed by revision 977, and doesn't seem to have been added back. Since SIG_DFL signals are not delivered to init, I'm not

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
Are you sure? I can't find that code at all - it looks like it's been lost somehow On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 14:22 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown

2010-12-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: So this does in fact seem to be caused completely by init holding libraries open. I patched /etc/init.d/umountfs to save the output of lsof just before unmounting root: Yes, now go read /etc/init.d/umountroot ** Changed

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown

2010-12-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: So this does in fact seem to be caused completely by init holding libraries open. I patched /etc/init.d/umountfs to save the output of lsof just before unmounting root: Yes, now go read /etc/init.d/umountroot ** Changed

[Bug 693510] Re: child paused by SIGTSTP fails to cause wait() to report WSTOPPED

2010-12-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
I've just done a build of 0.6.7-1 on the natty userspace but maverick kernel, and it built just fine ** Package changed: upstart (Ubuntu) = linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 252413] Re: Boot(7) is missing information about upstart

2010-12-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu) Assignee: Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) = James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252413 Title: Boot(7

[Bug 183729] Re: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout

2010-12-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged = Fix Committed ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) = Petr Lautrbach (plautrba) ** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None = 0.6.8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2010-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Ah, then ssh already had that race. In which case -D seems like a good choice On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: The code looks something like this: [ option parsing, config check, etc ] sshd.c, line 1744: daemon() [ reinit logs, start random number

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2010-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Ah, then ssh already had that race. In which case -D seems like a good choice On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: The code looks something like this: [ option parsing, config check, etc ] sshd.c, line 1744: daemon() [ reinit logs, start random number

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2010-12-13 Thread Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Not using expect fork of course would mean that ssh would be reported as running before it was actually listening for connections. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: In looking at the code in OpenSSH, the -D flag only affects this portion of sshd.c, around

[Bug 26234] Re: failure in pre-installation script: /dev/.udev/ not found

2010-12-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26227 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26227 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 26227 udev: Update from 0.074-3 to 0.076-1 fails ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu) Assignee: Scott James Remnant (scott) = (unassigned) ** This bug has been

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2010-12-13 Thread Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Not using expect fork of course would mean that ssh would be reported as running before it was actually listening for connections. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@fewbar.com wrote: In looking at the code in OpenSSH, the -D flag only affects this portion of sshd.c, around

Re: [Bug 680107] Re: Sync bootchart2 0.12.4-2 from Debian unstable (main)

2010-11-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On 24/11/2010 16:03, David Paleino wrote: That's why I never took the time out to do the update - it would have been a hiatus in the boot performance work mucking around with the charting tools, and what we have now worked well enough. I'm not saying we shouldn't do the update, we certainly

[Bug 680107] Re: Sync bootchart2 0.12.4-2 from Debian unstable (main)

2010-11-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
So it's worth clearing up a few misconceptions about our bootchart packages and bootchart2. The main two differences between bootchart and bootchart2 is that bootchart2 replaces the original Java charting component with one based on pybootchartgui, a Python rewrite; and that it replaces the

[Bug 532862] Re: upstart-job: refers to force-reload(8) instead of reload(8)

2010-11-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress = Fix Released -- upstart-job: refers to force-reload(8) instead of reload(8) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 674435] Re: Misdetects my root partition as HDD on an SSD drive

2010-11-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
Oh, I think btrfs is busted, as also may be crypted disk -- Misdetects my root partition as HDD on an SSD drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/674435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 654545] Re: mountall does not honor nobootwait flag on /var/* and /usr/* filesystems

2010-10-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Assignee: Scott James Remnant (scott) = (unassigned) -- mountall does not honor nobootwait flag on /var/* and /usr/* filesystems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 478392] Re: /tmp is not cleaned when on a separate partition

2010-10-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Assignee: Scott James Remnant (scott) = (unassigned) -- /tmp is not cleaned when on a separate partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478392 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 561390] Re: LVM - /var failed to mount during boot

2010-10-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
http://bit.ly/aro1lo -- LVM - /var failed to mount during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561390 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [Bug 650729] [NEW] Ubuntu Font should support Klingon

2010-09-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
One thing to bear in mind is that there's no point simply copying existing pIQad glyphs, since coverage for those is provided by other fonts already - and it's not clear that the pIQad glyphs are modifiable. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Launchpad Bug Tracker 650...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote:

[Bug 600359] Re: ureadahead generating oom messages during boot.

2010-09-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: ureadahead (Ubuntu Maverick) Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) = Scott James Remnant (scott) -- ureadahead generating oom messages during boot. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/600359 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 459639] Re: X server starts randomly in failsafe when starting from cold boot

2010-09-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
Moved this back to kdm - while I appreciate there is a Upstart could be better issue in here, there's more than enough of those filed upstream and I'm hard at work on the next version of Upstart -- there's no quick fix in Upstart for dealing with this kind of sequencing issue yet The fix for this

[Bug 553745] Re: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()

2010-09-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
While I appreciate that it's always frustrating to be affected by a bug that seems like it's going un-addressed for years, I'm not aware of any new information on this bug? Previous attempts at fixing it haven't helped or have made things worse - and without a new line of investigation, we're

[Bug 626723] Re: init script resets isig flag in an incorrect manner

2010-09-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
Robbie just pointed me as this bug, so I'm glad to see it's got a fix. Just wanted to confirm that while some of our issues in Lucid *were* plymouth/X interaction issues, we discovered that many of them were - as debugged above - caused by the isig flag being reapplied to /dev/console. We had to

[Bug 626723] Re: init script resets isig flag in an incorrect manner

2010-09-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
Robbie just pointed me as this bug, so I'm glad to see it's got a fix. Just wanted to confirm that while some of our issues in Lucid *were* plymouth/X interaction issues, we discovered that many of them were - as debugged above - caused by the isig flag being reapplied to /dev/console. We had to

[Bug 523587] Re: /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf uses find, which is in /usr/bin

2010-09-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
The solution you suggest is not a fix, since then it would mean that /tmp is being cleaned up while other parallel processes are potentially adding to it. There isn't a known good fix for this yet -- /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf uses find, which is in /usr/bin

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