[Bug 568288] Re: init: main process can respawn even when the job is stopping

2012-11-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
Here's a far simpler patch - it just skips the respawn handling entirely (including all the "failed" stuff) if the job is being stopped anyway. I think this is probably "right" ** Patch added: "upstart-1.2-respawn-pre-stop.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/568288/+attachment/3446

[Bug 1025973] Re: ureadahead appears to violate Apple patent 7607000

2012-07-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
I haven't read the patent in question, general advise by my employers is not to read them, but I can note a few particulars of ureadahead with regards to the date you quote: Development on ureadahead began in October 2009, it was based on Intel's sreadahead for which development began in November

[Bug 876626] Re: Unlocking the second crypto disk (/home) echos password on console

2012-04-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
-c1326 doesn't change the console handling, it merely changed the error case: - if (system_setup_console (CONSOLE_OUTPUT, (! restart)) < 0) + if (system_setup_console (CONSOLE_OUTPUT, (! restart)) < 0) { The Plymouth-safe console behavior was never committed upstream,

[Bug 880049] Re: 100% CPU usage in init if /dev/console is not available

2011-11-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
Please don't subscribe people to bugs without their permission -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880049 Title: 100% CPU usage in init if /dev/console is not available To manage notifica

Re: [Bug 702283] Re: usb-creator doesn't create EFI-bootable USB sticks

2011-08-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
The latter bit isn't true; current Chrome OS developer firmware will allow you to boot any developer-signed USB stick. But it is true that these have to be laid out so that the Chrome OS firmware understands them, which means EFI, the particular GPT layout, etc. not as a standard El Torito image o

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-04-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
pdf: in order to set SRU flags, I think you have to look at the bug from the Ubuntu POV ... check that the URL is of the form /ubuntu/source/+upstart/.. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94

[Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-03-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
Please don't change upstream tasks to Fix Committed unless the code is in trunk (lp:upstart) or Fix Released unless the code is in a released tarball. To track changes to Upstart in Natty, add an Ubuntu "Task" to the bug. ** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Released => In Progress -- You

[Bug 566326] Re: init: add --initdir=/etc/myinit

2011-03-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Package changed: ubuntu => upstart (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 728531] Re: chroot support is not reliable

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
I've marked the upstream task as Invalid since there is no chroot support upstream, and this is otherwise covered by #430224init: support chroots ** Changed in: upstart Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 183729] Re: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Undecided -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183729

[Bug 522197] Re: init: shouldn't log a warning/error when a job fails with a status in "normal exit"

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522197

[Bug 532366] Re: util: halt should not power off system unless called with -p/--poweroff

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Undecided -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 567068] Re: init: environ_valid() does not accept dot in key

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Undecided -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 604227] Re: util: make uninstall does not remove symlinks

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604227

[Bug 619269] Re: init: "script" stanza leaks file descriptor to child process

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619269

[Bug 707151] Re: init: keyboard-request event not emitted due to closing console fd too early

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/707151

[Bug 567068] Re: init: environ_valid() does not accept dot in key

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~upstart-devel/upstart/trunk/revision/1272 ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged => Fix Committed ** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None => 1.1 ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) => Scott James Remnant (scott) -- You received

[Bug 532366] Re: util: halt should not power off system unless called with -p/--poweroff

2011-03-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~upstart-devel/upstart/trunk/revision/1270 ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged => Fix Committed ** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None => 1.1 ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) => Scott James Remnant (scott) -- You received

[Bug 728531] Re: chroot support is not reliable

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/728531 Title: chroot support is not relia

[Bug 430224] Re: init: support chroots

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430224 Title:

[Bug 711635] Re: init: post-start can cause respawn to hang

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Summary changed: - mysql update fails waiting for upstart job to respawn + init: post-start can cause respawn to hang ** Changed in: upstart Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 713796] Re: after reboot, tty bug on the login page

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
Moved bug to Ubuntu bug tracker ** Project changed: upstart => null ** Changed in: null Status: New => Invalid ** Also affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 694772] Re: Sudden reboot during server ISO install

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 348455 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348455 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 348455 init: transfer state across re-exec * You can subscribe to bug 348455 by following this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/348455/+subscrib

[Bug 695220] Re: natty-alternate-amd64 fails to complete installation

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 348455 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348455 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 694772 Sudden reboot during server ISO install ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 348455 init: transfer state across re-exec * You can subscribe t

[Bug 703800] Re: init: restart command fails to restart main process when pre-stop stanza exists

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Summary changed: - restart command fails to restart main process when pre-stop stanza exists + init: restart command fails to restart main process when pre-stop stanza exists ** Changed in: upstart Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided => Medium

[Bug 689820] Re: initscript emulation layer fails on start/stop/restart for jobs that don't spawn long lived processes

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
Moved to Ubuntu bug tracker ** Changed in: upstart Status: New => Invalid ** Also affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Project changed: upstart => null -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 578108] Re: pppd persistent mode is not working

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
It seems that this has been assigned to the upstream Upstart project without a rationale for why this is not a bug in the Ubuntu configuration. Unless you're sure there is an /sbin/init *code bug*, the correct place for bug reports, even about boot, is in the appropriate Ubuntu package. This seems

[Bug 583512] Re: doc: better define job, service & task

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Summary changed: - inconsistent terminology in man 5 init + doc: better define job, service & task ** Changed in: upstart Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 616575] Re: init: support relation operators in env matches of start/stop conditions

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616575 Title: init: support relation o

[Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
Rolling back to In Progress since this hasn't actually landed in trunk yet ** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed => Triaged ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 705679] Re: initctl: meaningless message when the user is not allowed to perform a command

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 431239 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431239 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 431239 initctl: output better errors than D-Bus (e.g. for permission denied) * You can subscribe to bug 431239 by following this link: https://bugs.launchpad

Re: [Bug 616575] Re: support relation operators in env matches of start/stop conditions

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
The trouble with operators like "<", ">", etc. is that their meaning varies depending on your interpretation of the following string. It may be that dpkg-ish version comparisons are the right way forward here, since they split strings and numbers according to a well-defined spec that is actually a

Re: [Bug 728531] [NEW] chroot support is not reliable

2011-03-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
I clearly didn't test this well enough ;-) On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:22 AM, James Hunt <728...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Current natty chroot support does not seem to work reliably. Logging > into a natty schroot as root and running "initctl list" shows: > > plymouth-ups

[Bug 672067] Re: There is no bash-completion for the commands in upstart

2011-03-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Also affects: upstart Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: upstart Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in:

[Bug 183729] Re: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout

2011-03-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183729 Title: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout -- kubu

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on ".conf" file in /etc/init

2011-03-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720573 Title: Segmentation fault on ".conf" file in /etc/init -- ubuntu-bugs maili

Re: [Bug 703800] Re: restart command fails to restart main process when pre-stop stanza exists

2011-02-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
Yeah there are quite a few bugs related to pre-stop scripts, they don't really work like any other, so there are definite gaps in the coverage On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, scm <703...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > I can confirm I see this behavior in upstart (0.6.5-8) on lucid. On > several of

Re: [Bug 707479] Re: service restart does not use an updated job configuration

2011-02-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
No, restart means to restart what you already have. If you restart a game, it means going back to the beginning of the game and starting it again. It doesn't mean potentially starting a new completely different game. Scott On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Thomas Schweikle <707...@bugs.launchpad

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on ".conf" file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~upstart-devel/upstart/trunk/revision/1260 ** Changed in: upstart Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None => 1.0 ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) => Scott James Remnant (scott) -- You rece

[Bug 183729] Re: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None => 1.0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183729 Title: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout -- kubuntu-bugs mailing l

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on ".conf" file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
The best fix is in the filter, since it covers both. As well as just checking that there is a ".conf" extension, make sure that the previous character isn't "/" ** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged => In Progress ** Patch added: "conf-file-fix.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/upsta

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on ".conf" file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
The reason it doesn't cause a panic on the reboot is because the file doesn't actually get to the filesystem! If it did, you wouldn't be able to boot again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on ".conf" file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
The attached patch adds test cases to check for this case, along with a simpler similar test case for a file missing the ".conf" extension (which is tested elsewhere, but always worth checking again). This shows that the failure is an assertion: test:job_class.c:153: Assertion failed in job_class

[Bug 720573] Re: Segmentation fault on ".conf" file in /etc/init

2011-02-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
Confirmed; interestingly this doesn't seem to cause a kernel panic if the file already exists on startup, just on first creation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720573 Title: Segmenta

[Bug 715101] Re: pre-start script is executed before processing the event "stopping ..."

2011-02-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
This is definitely the intended behavior, the purpose of the pre-stop script is to allow the job to: - delay the stop - cancel the stop - send its own clean shutdown command before the TERM signal It's also not inconsistent if you think about it. The starting event happens before the pre-star

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2011-02-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
AM -0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: >> They definitely should be allowed, ssh is actually a canon example of >> why. > >> Upstart should supervise the sshd daemon, not the login sub-process >> associated with a particular connection, and certainly not any >> pro

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2011-02-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
They definitely should be allowed, ssh is actually a canon example of why. Upstart should supervise the sshd daemon, not the login sub-process associated with a particular connection, and certainly not any processes being run inside the login session. Otherwise "stop ssh" would kill all user logi

Re: [Bug 694772] Re: Sudden reboot during server ISO install

2011-02-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
I believe there's a bug open for the lack of state transfer? If not, we could repurpose this one? That being said, we should remember that state transfer should *not* be invoked by SIGTERM - so maybe it's worth keeping this one open to remind us of that. Scott On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Cl

[Bug 707479] Re: service restart does not use an updated job configuration

2011-02-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
This is this way by design, it allows for services to be restarted without a change of configuration. If you want to adopt the new configuration use: stop service ; start service ** Changed in: upstart Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a me

Re: [Bug 585908] Re: cross-comment events and *.conf files

2011-02-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
So one interesting thing about this is that if you design a system that complains about its configuration during boot, then you're complaining at the wrong person, the user. The user has no idea how the system boots, and should have no need to know. The system should boot regardless, and it _shou

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2011-02-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
At least certified bugs can be documented, with certified workarounds. On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:05 PM, ingo <672...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: >> ... freeze updates for 10.04.2 in order that we can get certification > done > > That means we get certified BUGS - and that 10 months after release! >

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2011-01-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
ingo: that's the way the Ubuntu release process works, I'm sorry that this is a surprise to you On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:00 PM, ingo <672...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > @Zippo, > > it is really a sad story with LTS-Lucid. I really don't understand how > such a buggy release could pass QC (if the

Re: [Bug 104525] Re: default ntp.conf should use pool.ntp.org servers

2011-01-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
Thanks for subscribing the Technical Board to this bug. Please add discussion of the default NTP Servers to the agenda for the next Technical Board meeting that you are able to attend, and we will discuss it with you there. Scott On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Xavier Robin <104...@bugs.launchp

Re: [Bug 694772] Re: Sudden reboot during server ISO install

2011-01-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
A D-Bus interface to re-exec is the plan here. Scott On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Loïc Minier wrote: > Hey Scott! > > We'd love your input on the best way for upstart's telinit to not > SIGTERM what could possibly be a non-upstart init (this is particularly > an issue with busybox as it reboo

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-01-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
That's the exact plan, yes On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Bryan McLellan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Scott James Remnant > <94...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: >> The feature planned for the next release is the support of override >> files, which au

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2011-01-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
t off this email too long hoping I'd > have more time to think about a solution than I have had. > > It must not require modifying the contents of a configuration file > that other packages or the user owns. > It should be simple, perhaps even simple enough that a user would

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
Do you often find that calling someone an asshole means they're more likely do something you want? I must try that sometime ;-) On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:36 AM, mikegrb wrote: > Sometimes users forget that some developers are assholes that don't care > about how they wish to use the software. >

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
Sometimes people forget that normal users don't care one iota about what a service is, let alone which are running on their machine On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:20 AM, plouf <94...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > "it's not a very common use case" > > I wanted to desactivate avahi-daemon without uninsta

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
The "expected to uninstall" comes from Debian Policy, btw. It probably shouldn't be a surprise that Debian still to this day doesn't provide a canon way to disable init scripts from running on boot aside from uninstalling the package. On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:49 PM, paul fox wrote: > fair enoug

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
Indeed, all of those things work. The reason for the ".conf" suffix is because editors frequently write temporary working files into the same directory as the original file, they also write backup files, and package managers frequently write "old or new" files into the directory as well. You end

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
Because, believe it or not, it's not a very common use case - in the Debian and Ubuntu world, you're generally expected to uninstall services you don't need. Also the Dpkg package manager *honours* deletes as a conffile change, so if you simply delete the job (or change its extension) it won't com

Re: [Bug 94065] Re: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job

2010-12-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
Note that in Upstart 0.6.7, you can disable a job with: echo manual >> /etc/init/JOB.conf (this bug isn't completely fixed yet, because we want to allow a method to do that without modifying the original file) On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:59 PM, plouf <94...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > When doe

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
I've no idea why that revision got dropped from the Ubuntu package, I did a bit of investigation and it seems to vanish about the point we switched to the auto-importer based packages. My only guess is that bzr undid the cherry-pick as part of a merge. Right, eglibc's postinst should definitely n

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
29 at 00:06 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: >> Are you sure?  I can't find that code at all - it looks like it's been >> lost somehow > > quite certain.. its a bit tricky to find it in bzr, but this will give > it to you for, say, maverick: > > $ bzr bran

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
Are you sure? I can't find that code at all - it looks like it's been lost somehow On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 14:22 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: >> >&

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown because init cannot be restarted

2010-12-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: > This makes sense, because telinit u just sends SIGTERM to upstart, which > has no handler, as it was removed by revision 977, and doesn't seem to > have been added back. Since SIG_DFL signals are not delivered to init, > I'm not sure how umoun

Re: [Bug 672177] Re: libc6 upgrade causes umount to fail on shutdown

2010-12-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > So this does in fact seem to be caused completely by init holding > libraries open. I patched /etc/init.d/umountfs to save the output of > lsof just before unmounting root: > Yes, now go read /etc/init.d/umountroot ** Changed in: upstart

[Bug 693510] Re: child paused by SIGTSTP fails to cause wait() to report WSTOPPED

2010-12-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
I've just done a build of 0.6.7-1 on the natty userspace but maverick kernel, and it built just fine ** Package changed: upstart (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 183729] Re: compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout

2010-12-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: Triaged => Fix Committed ** Changed in: upstart Assignee: (unassigned) => Petr Lautrbach (plautrba) ** Changed in: upstart Milestone: None => 0.6.8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 252413] Re: Boot(7) is missing information about upstart

2010-12-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: manpages (Ubuntu) Assignee: Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) => James Hunt (jamesodhunt) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252413 Title: Boot(7)

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2010-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Ah, then ssh already had that race. In which case -D seems like a good choice On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > The code looks something like this: > > [ option parsing, config check, etc ] > sshd.c, line 1744: daemon() > [ reinit logs, start random number generator, chdir

Re: [Bug 687535] Re: upstart loses track of ssh daemon after reload ssh

2010-12-13 Thread Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Not using "expect fork" of course would mean that ssh would be reported as running before it was actually listening for connections. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > In looking at the code in OpenSSH, the -D flag only affects this portion > of sshd.c, around line 1740: > >

[Bug 26234] Re: failure in pre-installation script: /dev/.udev/ not found

2010-12-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 26227 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26227 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 26227 udev: Update from 0.074-3 to 0.076-1 fails ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu) Assignee: Scott James Remnant (scott) => (unassigned) ** This bug has b

Re: [Bug 680107] Re: Sync bootchart2 0.12.4-2 from Debian unstable (main)

2010-11-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On 24/11/2010 16:03, David Paleino wrote: >> That's why I never took the time out to do the update - it would have >> been a hiatus in the boot performance work mucking around with the >> charting tools, and what we have now worked well enough. >> >> >> I'm not saying we shouldn't do the update, we

[Bug 680107] Re: Sync bootchart2 0.12.4-2 from Debian unstable (main)

2010-11-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
So it's worth clearing up a few misconceptions about our bootchart packages and bootchart2. The main two differences between bootchart and bootchart2 is that bootchart2 replaces the original Java charting component with one based on "pybootchartgui", a Python rewrite; and that it replaces the orig

[Bug 532862] Re: upstart-job: refers to force-reload(8) instead of reload(8)

2010-11-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- upstart-job: refers to force-reload(8) instead of reload(8) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532862 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 674435] Re: Misdetects my root partition as HDD on an SSD drive

2010-11-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
Oh, I think btrfs is busted, as also may be crypted disk -- Misdetects my root partition as HDD on an SSD drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/674435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bu

[Bug 478392] Re: /tmp is not cleaned when on a separate partition

2010-10-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Assignee: Scott James Remnant (scott) => (unassigned) -- /tmp is not cleaned when on a separate partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478392 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 654545] Re: mountall does not honor nobootwait flag on /var/* and /usr/* filesystems

2010-10-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Assignee: Scott James Remnant (scott) => (unassigned) -- mountall does not honor nobootwait flag on /var/* and /usr/* filesystems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 561390] Re: LVM - /var failed to mount during boot

2010-10-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
http://bit.ly/aro1lo -- LVM - /var failed to mount during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/561390 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: [Bug 650729] [NEW] Ubuntu Font should support Klingon

2010-09-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
One thing to bear in mind is that there's no point simply copying existing pIQad glyphs, since coverage for those is provided by other fonts already - and it's not clear that the pIQad glyphs are modifiable. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Launchpad Bug Tracker < 650...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote

[Bug 600359] Re: ureadahead generating oom messages during boot.

2010-09-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: ureadahead (Ubuntu Maverick) Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) => Scott James Remnant (scott) -- ureadahead generating oom messages during boot. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/600359 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 553745] Re: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()

2010-09-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
While I appreciate that it's always frustrating to be affected by a bug that seems like it's going "un-addressed for years", I'm not aware of any new information on this bug? Previous attempts at fixing it haven't helped or have made things worse - and without a new line of investigation, we're pr

[Bug 459639] Re: X server starts randomly in failsafe when starting from cold boot

2010-09-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
Moved this back to kdm - while I appreciate there is a "Upstart could be better" issue in here, there's more than enough of those filed upstream and I'm hard at work on the next version of Upstart -- there's no quick fix in Upstart for dealing with this kind of sequencing issue yet The fix for thi

[Bug 523587] Re: /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf uses find, which is in /usr/bin

2010-09-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
The solution you suggest is not a fix, since then it would mean that /tmp is being cleaned up while other parallel processes are potentially adding to it. There isn't a known good fix for this yet -- /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf uses find, which is in /usr/bin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/52358

[Bug 626723] Re: init script resets isig flag in an incorrect manner

2010-09-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
Robbie just pointed me as this bug, so I'm glad to see it's got a fix. Just wanted to confirm that while some of our issues in Lucid *were* plymouth/X interaction issues, we discovered that many of them were - as debugged above - caused by the isig flag being reapplied to /dev/console. We had to

[Bug 604185] Re: Unable to start vsftpd with upstart if private key

2010-09-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 327823 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327823 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 565890 init: support output of starting tasks to console * You can subscribe to bug 565890 by following this link: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+so

[Bug 609794] Re: apt-get remove upstart wants to remove entire system

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix -- apt-get remove upstart wants to remove entire system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609794 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 567068] Re: init: environ_valid() does not accept dot in key

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
Moved upstream, since the bug is in the Upstart code -- init: environ_valid() does not accept dot in key https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567068 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@list

[Bug 567068] Re: udev rules with dot in key fails with Env must be KEY=VALUE pairs

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
Ah, I'd read the following from the shell guide: Variables set by the user must have a name consisting solely of alphabet‐ ics, numerics, and underscores - the first of which must not be numeric. But SUS says, elsewhere: Environment variable names used by the utilities in the Shell and

[Bug 571988] Re: tty login sessions do not correctly get updated in /var/run/utmp

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 183729 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183729 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 183729 compat: utmp not cleared on tty logout -- tty login sessions do not correctly get updated in /var/run/utmp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571988 You

[Bug 601980] Re: put back sysvinit as an option

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- put back sysvinit as an option https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601980 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubunt

[Bug 627472] Re: Upstart and Sudo - Email for root

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
Transferring this to Ubuntu sudo ** Project changed: upstart => null ** Changed in: null Status: New => Invalid ** Also affects: sudo (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Upstart and Sudo - Email for root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627472 You received this bug no

[Bug 620441] Re: MySQL upstart stop job does not cleanly shutdown mysql

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: upstart Status: New => Invalid -- MySQL upstart stop job does not cleanly shutdown mysql https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/620441 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bug

[Bug 623098] Re: cron doesn't run due to have a bug in upstart

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
I'm transferring this bug over to Ubuntu cron. ** Project changed: upstart => null ** Changed in: null Status: New => Invalid ** Also affects: cron (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- cron doesn't run due to have a bug in upstart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/62309

[Bug 615549] Re: Dell Studio XPS 13 no video

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
This bug sounds very like a problem that Andy Whitcroft and Colin Watson have been tracking as part of their vgafb/efifb work - if I were you, I would talk to them before taking any action -- Dell Studio XPS 13 no video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/615549 You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 615549] Re: Dell Studio XPS 13 no video

2010-09-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
Martin: there can never be any "all video devices are up" case because a video card can be hotplugged later. -- Dell Studio XPS 13 no video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/615549 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 406397] Re: init: job stuck with expect fork/daemon when parent reaps child

2010-09-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
This and bug #530779 are fundamental due to Upstart's use of ptrace() for fork following - a rewrite of Upstart is in progress which uses other newer kernel mechanisms to follow forks and would not be vulnerable to this kind of issue. However there's no "quick fix" to it, and no way to backport tha

Re: [Bug 620441] Re: MySQL upstart stop job does not cleanly shutdown mysql

2010-08-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 16:23 +, Clint Byrum wrote: > Can we abort the stop from pre-stop somehow? Otherwise I'm afraid users > will either be left waiting forever, or still sending SIGKILL. > You can call "start" from the pre-stop script, which will return the job to a running state. That bei

[Bug 600359] Re: ureadahead generating oom messages during boot.

2010-08-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
The OOM killer taking out ureadahead is not a problem; ureadahead will have had at least some chance to do some good work. ureadahead using excessive memory during tracing due to the size of the tracing buffer is a different problem for which a fix has recently been uploaded, and a further fix is

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