After much banging my head and googling, I've found a post (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/120050/sudo-service-vsftpd- returns-unknown-job-vsftpd) showing that
"sudo service xxxx start" (or stop, or restart) works, while "service xxxx start" (in a su session) does not work. So the culprit was clearly the environment: If you go root with "su" instead of "sudo su" or "su -", "service" does not to work correctly either, as "su" will carry most of your normal user environment to the root session. After some testings, I found that the culprit is the UPSTART_SESSION environment variable, which comes set when you "su", but not set when you "sudo su" or "su -". Here are some test results: -- does not work jsveiga@dell:~$ su Password: root@dell:/home/jsveiga# service smbd restart stop: Unknown job: smbd start: Unknown job: smbd -- works even from a su session root@dell:/home/jsveiga# sudo service smbd restart smbd stop/waiting smbd start/running, process 3823 -- works root@dell:/home/jsveiga# exit jsveiga@dell:~$ sudo su root@dell:/home/jsveiga# service smbd restart smbd stop/waiting smbd start/running, process 3862 -- works root@dell:/home/jsveiga# exit jsveiga@dell:~$ su - Password: root@dell:~# service smbd restart smbd stop/waiting smbd start/running, process 3905 -- going su then unsetting the UPSTART_SESSION works root@dell:/home/jsveiga# exit jsveiga@dell:~$ su Password: root@dell:/home/jsveiga# service smbd restart stop: Unknown job: smbd start: Unknown job: smbd root@dell:/home/jsveiga# unset UPSTART_SESSION root@dell:/home/jsveiga# service smbd restart smbd stop/waiting smbd start/running, process 4244 So the start/stop scripts are failing somehow simply by the presence of the UPSTART_SESSION environment variable. BR, Joao S Veiga -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1303769 Title: xubuntu 14.04 service start,stop, does not work in terminal emulation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1303769/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
