scripts/web2py.ubuntu.sh has a problem with starting web2py sometimes. The symptom is the init script is run with a start option but web2py does not start.
The cause is if the start-stop-daemon program used to start python sees another copy of python running it will refuse to start the copy of python required to run web2py. This can be corrected by having the --pidfile option on start-stop-daemon --start, then start-stop-daemon will allow another copy of python to run. In the current script the pid file writing option is the responsibility of the web2py command as set in DAEMON_ARGS. It should be moved to be an option of start-stop-daemon. Here is the output from diff from trunk after I made the changes $ diff ../web2py-hg/scripts/web2py.ubuntu.sh web2py.ubuntu.sh 30c30 < DAEMON_ARGS="web2py.py --password=<recycle> --pid_filename=$PIDFILE" --- > DAEMON_ARGS="web2py.py --password=<recycle>" 65c65 < start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \ --- > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
