The severity of this bug should be important or higher and it should
be re-opened. The answer given to the previous bug report is
unacceptable.
I also see this problem, but it is worse because I have V4L devices
installed but I don't want to use them with motion. The default
configuration file /etc/motion/motion.conf contains the lines:
# Start in daemon (background) mode and release terminal (default: off)
daemon off
When upgrading motion it found my TV capture cards and started motion
using them. This stopped the 'apt-get upgrade' process from
completing. I had to Control-C, edit the /etc/init.d/motion file and
then re-run 'apt-get upgrade' to finish configuring the package.
This means that booting the machine will start motion running but it
won't background itself (I think this means that the boot will hang at
this point).
The default should not be to start motion at boot time unless the
file /etc/default/motion specifies that it should be started (see
other packages that do this, e.g. spamassassin or rsync). It should
also not be started if the default configuration file does not contain
the line 'daemon on' since this will hang the startup.
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