Issue #7165 has been updated by Jon Topper.
I'm also seeing this. It's causing problems as some init scripts (tomcat6 from jpackage, I'm looking at you) have race conditions which mean that starting then restarting the service in quick succession doesn't work - by the time the "stop" process in the restart runs, the just-started daemon hasn't started its management thread yet, and so the shutdown command fails. I'm struggling to think of any software I know of which can't be restarted if they're not running, but it strikes me that the cleanest approach here (from a user PoV) would be to allow you to configure the service resource with something like a "canrestartifstopped" flag to represent that case. Arguably, not having to wait for two lots of daemon startups would also allow puppet to run more quickly too :) ---------------------------------------- Bug #7165: services restarted unnecessarily https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7165 Author: John Florian Status: Needs Decision Priority: Normal Assignee: Nigel Kersten Category: service Target version: Affected Puppet version: 0.25.5 Keywords: Branch: Given the following conditions: 1. service 'S' is currently disabled/stopped 1. config file 'F' for service 'S' is currently in state 'A' 1. puppet class 'C' calls for 'S' to be enabled/running and 'F' to be in state 'B' When puppet runs, the following currently occurs: <pre> notice: //C/File[F]/content: content changed '{md5}-A' to '{md5}-B' info: //C/File[F]: Scheduling refresh of Service[S] notice: //C/Service[S]/ensure: ensure changed 'stopped' to 'running' notice: //C/Service[S]: Triggering 'refresh' from 1 dependencies </pre> Thus, puppet sees the service is to be running and makes it so. Then it realizes that a refresh is needed and so restarts the service. The restart is unnecessary in this case. Depending on the particular service, this could be quite undesirable. Puppet should be able to recognize this case and simply start the service just once. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
