2011/8/1 Yves-Alexis Perez <[email protected]>: > reassign 636054 sysvinit-utils > thanks > > On lun., 2011-08-01 at 10:51 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: >> On sam., 2011-07-30 at 12:14 -0300, Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos wrote: >> > I think the problem is that the lightdm package installs an upstart >> > init >> > script. /usr/sbin/service thinks upstart is available and fails to >> > start >> > lightdm: >> > >> > fernando@munchkin:~$ sudo service openntpd restart >> > Restarting openntpd: ntpd. >> > fernando@munchkin:~$ sudo service lightdm restart >> > exec: 129: restart: not found >> > fernando@munchkin:~$ >> > >> > I guess this bug could also have been filed against sysvinit-utils, >> > but >> > on the other hand, I'm not sure we're supposed to be shipping upstart >> > init files yet. The "service" utility has no problem whatsoever with >> > packages that ship systemd init files (and it works with systemd), but >> > seems to choke on upstart init files. >> >> I've taken the time to look a bit more at this and I'm wondering. Why do >> you think this has anything to do with /etc/init/lightdm? >> >> 'service' seems to try to execute 'restart' instead of calling the right >> script with argument, but that looks completely unrelated to upstart >> files. > > Replying to myself: because 'service' has a compatibility layer for > upstart which I don't get at all:
Hi, The "start", "restart" and "status" binaries are in the upstart package. I don't disagree with your point, I think "service" should have handled that better (not sure how, tbh). The only reason I filed this against lightdm is that this is the first time "service" fails like this for me, so I believe other packages shipping upstart init files might be doing something different (or not shipping upstart init files at all). I guess a simple "fix" would be checking if the "action" binary is executable (test -x /sbin/start or something like that), and if that fails, fall back to invoking the init script directly. Regards, _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
