And yes, dropping 'respawn' from the job is enough to stop the job from being respawned by upstart.
I think the only justification for setting respawn is that, even though it's not the upstart default, it's a sensible default policy for services. So if it's not working for any reason, by all means it should be changed. -- upstart job keeps restarting a dying gdm https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441638 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
