Actually, I also had the issue with this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/543506?comments=all with runlve reported as unknown on boot and most services not starting.
I was able to resolve most of those issues using the solutions reported in that discussion. However, the upstart issue seems to persist. Some services do start after the fixes for the other reported bug. The services that are started according to "ps aux" include : tty apache2 ssh rsyslogd cron dbus daemon vmware guestd The services we need but are not starting include mysqld and vsftpd. I do not see udev in the list of running processes. Now some of these services can be started the old fashioned way: "e.g /etc/init.d/apache2 start" But mysqld and vsftpd indicate that only the new upstart system must be used to start them. Thanks, Robert --- On Fri, 7/16/10, David Sugar <[email protected]> wrote: From: David Sugar <[email protected]> Subject: [Bug 604288] Re: Lucid Lynx upstart 0.6.5-6 not starting services To: [email protected] Received: Friday, July 16, 2010, 3:30 PM In the case of vsftpd it may fail if a password protected private key is used and none is entered on the password request prompt on the console. However, if initctl returns nothing, then I agree that is "strange". For example, I see on my system something like: dy...@server:~$ initctl list avahi-daemon start/running, process 640 mountall-net stop/waiting rc stop/waiting rpc_pipefs start/running rsyslog start/running, process 645 tty4 start/running, process 774 udev start/running, process 271 upstart-udev-bridge start/running, process 268 ureadahead-other stop/waiting ... etc... Some of these are core services, so it would be hard to imagine the system not starting them and still being relatively "usable". Can you confirm things like udev are not actually running using a simple ps ax? Can you start mysqld directly? You will not see console output from starting any upstart managed process from a shell and especially in an xterm or ssh session. This is because the child processes all inherit stdio from the upstart daemon, and for the daemon, stdio is presumably the (first) console device, though you may see something on that default console (CTRL-ALT-F1). -- Lucid Lynx upstart 0.6.5-6 not starting services https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604288 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: upstart Recent upgrade from Karmic (9.10) to Lucid (10.04) - server, 64 bit version. Upstart services are not starting at boot. These include vsftpd and mysqld. I also cannot start them manually using the start command such as "sudo start mysql". No output is returned on the console and I do not know which log files to check to see what is going on. if I run apt-cache policy upstart, I get upstart: Installed: 0.6.5-6 Candidate: 0.6.5-6 Version table: *** 0.6.5-6 0 If I run: initctl list no output is returned on the console which leads me to assume that upstart is starting no services. many ".conf" files exist in the /etc/init/ directory so they should be started by upstart and they should be returned by initctl list, right? If this is a different error, please direct me to some good error logs to start tracking it down. I tried reinstalling upstart, but this did not fix the problem. I also tried reinstalling several of the applications. Thanks, Robert To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/604288/+subscribe -- Lucid Lynx upstart 0.6.5-6 not starting services https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604288 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
