I have an interesting problem I haven't figured out how to solve with upstart. We have an upstart task for our updater script. We want it to run before rc-sysinit and before gdm, but gdm isn't present on servers, so you can't say starting gdm and starting rc-sysinit because starting gdm will never happen. If you say starting gdm or starting rc-sysinit, then on desktops with gdm, the task gets run twice. What's worse, it doesn't seem to block gdm anymore. My guess is that rc-sysinit fires first, so updater gets started then. When gdm fires, it sees the rc-sysinit prompted updater task is already running and continues on starting gdm, rather than waiting for the existing task to finish. That seems bug-like, but it might just be my lack of understanding.
Is there a right way to get an upstart task to block both rc-sysinit and gdm, but not require gdm to be present, and not run twice if both are present? Currently it looks like I'll have to have a different updater.conf for servers and workstations, but that seems far from ideal. Thanks, Joel Ebel -- upstart-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel
