Public bug reported: the varnish package, version 3.0.5-2 amd64 on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS by default does not include any 'START=' configuration in /etc/default/varnish . As such, users attempting to install + start Varnish are met with:
* Not starting HTTP accelerator varnishd [ OK ] After debugging the init script, I noticed that it was running the `disabled_varnishd` function. There was no indication of how to fix this. I eventually came to this blog post: http://l3l0.eu/lang/en/2011/04/varnish-the-first-encounter/ (from April 2011 for Ubuntu Meerkat) and followed the fix (which was to put a single line, `START=yes` in /etc/default/varnish). Can we please get this included in the default distribution of Varnish, so every new Varnish user on Ubuntu doesn't have to track down this fix manually? I see the messages on other bugs here with "Newer varnish releases have been adapted to work better with upstart and follow nowadays systemd policies for fedora and debian. This bug should now be closed." . I'm not sure if that's relevant to this package, but the shipping version is broken by default with no indication of how to fix it, and it appears that it's been broken since at least Ubuntu 10.10. ** Affects: varnish (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1560238 Title: Varnish 3.0.5-2 will not start without modification to systemd script To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/varnish/+bug/1560238/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
