On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:25:17PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Well, it would be inappropriate to refuse to stop the service because > > upstart was running. The more likely outcome is that the init script > > will not be able to find the running process, and will therefore exit 0 > > anyway as a no-op. So I don't think there are any new requirements here > > (which is why I didn't spell it out).
> If you kill the daemon from the sysv init script, upstart will just
> respawn it (if respawn is set) or mark it as failed.
Sorry, I was unclear. What I meant was that, in the upgrade case where
upstart is already running but the service is not yet under control of
upstart, "/etc/init.d/$service stop" still needs to make sure it stops the
daemon if running. The implementation should be careful to *not* kill
processes that were spawned via upstart; but in general that can be handled
by ensuring the upstart job doesn't create a pidfile that would confuse the
init script, and in the worst case it'd just be:
stop)
if init_is_upstart && status $service | grep -q start
then
exit 0
fi
[...]
Now alternatively, we could make it always an error to call
/etc/init.d/$service stop when there's an existing upstart job, and have
this command return non-zero just as for the start case. But that requires
us to *guarantee* that the pre-upstart service is stopped *before* unpacking
the upstart-aware init script on the system, and that falls afoul of the
restart-in-postinst case.
> Personally, I would just prefer, if the shell library would forward the
> action requests to the native init system.
But this falls down horribly during the upgrade in a very error-prone
manner.
> Another problematic issue that comes to mind, is packages installing
> dhcp and ifup.d hooks which call /etc/init.d/<service> <start>
> From my recollection, there are at least a few that do this, the most
> prominent one is nfs-common.
I don't see any such hook script in nfs-common. I see a few hooks that
call *reload*, which is always safe to call regardless of any invoke-rc.d
or runlevel policy. But calling '/etc/init.d/$service start' directly from
a hook would be just as broken as calling it from a maintainer script,
because it bypasses said policy.
So this should be a non-issue.
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