Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-16 Thread Clint Byrum
to replace upstart[1] with systemd[2] for 11.10? I have to say I was skeptical at first, but after reading that very good introduction it sounds great! http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/why-ubuntu-should-continue-with-upstart-for-11-10/ Seriously? It is too close to LTS

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-13 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Steve Langasek (steve.langa...@ubuntu.com): On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:01:50PM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: On 05/11/2011 04:57 AM, ubuntu-devel-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: From: Reinhard Tartler siret...@ubuntu.com Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:55:09 +0200 So you want to require

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-13 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 05/12/2011 07:00 AM, ubuntu-devel-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: From: Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:40:12 +0200 That's what happens*today*. But cgroups are an entirely new interface in the kernel that in systemd explicitly prevents that from

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-13 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Patrick Goetz (pgo...@mail.utexas.edu): On 05/12/2011 07:00 AM, ubuntu-devel-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: From: Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:40:12 +0200 That's what happens*today*. But cgroups are an entirely new interface in the kernel

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Serge Hallyn | Not even. Another task can do it, or you can do it by hand when or | after you start your screeen session. It just needs to be done as root, since the systemd cgroup hierarchy isn't writable to a normal user. | But again, that's also why cgroups are not the panacea

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-12 Thread John Johansen
On 05/11/2011 06:12 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: On 5/11/2011 10:44 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: On the other hand, you can't possibly hope to convince anyone that a persistent screen session requiring a specialized init task is a feature, not a bug. It doesn't require a specialized anything. A

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-12 Thread James Hunt
On 11/05/11 20:07, Patrick Goetz wrote: On 05/11/2011 05:25 AM, James Hunt wrote: The best place to start is: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/TechnicalOverviewUpstart This section: ...if a job configuration file specified the following complex

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:01:50PM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: On 05/11/2011 04:57 AM, ubuntu-devel-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: From: Reinhard Tartler siret...@ubuntu.com Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:55:09 +0200 So you want to require screen users to break their current user experience by

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Tue, 10 May 2011 13:39:40 -0400 Phillip Susi ps...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 5/10/2011 6:46 AM, Steffen Barszus wrote: So the discussion should be on how to evaluate systemd , and set a number of criterias to benchmark both. Then the better one should be planned for slow migration. Look

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:56:11 (CEST), Phillip Susi wrote: Case in point, I have gnome-terminal set up to run byobu-launcher which sets up a screen session, and the session continues on between gdm sessions, allowing me to reconnect to it after re-logging in, either on gdm again, a tty

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:56:11PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: On 05/10/2011 08:10 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: Is it really necessary to kill all children of gdm when gdm itself gets stopped? I might have started some backgrounded script somewhere that should really continue running after

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread James Hunt
On 10/05/11 21:45, Phillip Susi wrote: On 5/10/2011 4:15 PM, James Hunt wrote: If you are seeing strange behaviour, please raise bugs so we can look at them. It is a design limitation AFAIK, not a bug. At least the last time I asked SJR about it, Upstart doesn't use cgroups to track

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread James Hunt
On 10/05/11 21:45, Phillip Susi wrote: On 5/10/2011 4:15 PM, James Hunt wrote: If you are seeing strange behaviour, please raise bugs so we can look at them. It is a design limitation AFAIK, not a bug. At least the last time I asked SJR about it, Upstart doesn't use cgroups to track

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 11/05/2011 21:34, Phillip Susi wrote: On 5/10/2011 10:31 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: Sorry, but this sounds really ridiculous right now. If systemd really prevents the creation of background processes that disconnect themselves from the task that init originally spawned, there's something

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread Phillip Susi
On 5/10/2011 10:31 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: Sorry, but this sounds really ridiculous right now. If systemd really prevents the creation of background processes that disconnect themselves from the task that init originally spawned, there's something seriously wrong with systemd, and I think we

systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 05/11/2011 04:57 AM, ubuntu-devel-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: From: Reinhard Tartler siret...@ubuntu.com Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:55:09 +0200 So you want to require screen users to break their current user experience by having them to write (system-wide) upstart scripts? I'm

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread Phillip Susi
On 5/11/2011 10:44 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: On the other hand, you can't possibly hope to convince anyone that a persistent screen session requiring a specialized init task is a feature, not a bug. It doesn't require a specialized anything. A persistent ANYTHING when transitioning to

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-11 Thread Phillip Susi
On 5/11/2011 5:57 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: The only thing that I see cgroups give you that you don't already have from killall5 is the assurance that processes won't dodge attempts to kill them. That's an interesting feature of cgroups to think about, but I don't think it's relevant to single

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
Patrick, On 09/05/11 16:58, Patrick Goetz wrote: From: Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 11:45:56 +0200 And let's not forget that, for anyone tracking the LTS, upstart is*already* the system in use for the previous LTS, 10.04. The fundamentals of how upstart

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
Hi Martin, On 09/05/11 21:01, Martin Pitt wrote: Steve Langasek [2011-05-09 12:36 +0200]: It's one thing to have a rollback plan for which desktop experience is shipped by default; that touches a handful of closely related packages. It's quite another to try to roll back an init system

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
On 09/05/11 19:34, Patrick Goetz wrote: I think the discussion found in this bug report makes a fairly compelling argument that Ubuntu should probably migrate to systemd sooner rather than later. Note particularly that a take away message from this is that services like apache and postfix

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Martin Pitt
James Hunt [2011-05-10 11:00 +0100]: If we should ever do the migration to systemd, .. Which to be clear, we are not considering currently. Right, I didn't want to imply this. I agree in principle that we should do this *should* we ever consider moving to systemd, but there is the issue of

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
On 10/05/11 11:46, Steffen Barszus wrote: Look its new and it has bells and whistles lets move to that is not a valid argument for moving to a new init. +1000. James. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Phillip Susi
On 5/10/2011 6:55 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: I don't think we can, given that upstart and systemd have opposite approaches to when to start services (as soon as you can vs. not until you need them). So even a very coarse approximation like I don't think this is correct. If I understood the

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 05/10/2011 04:55 AM, James Hunt wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/406397 This is a nasty bug, but it does not require a complete rewrite of Upstart. Indeed, we are currently considering replacing the process tracking code to resolve this bug. Hi - To be clear, the

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Martin Pitt
Patrick Goetz [2011-05-10 9:52 -0500]: My only concern: wouldn't this then require that every binary package would have to be built to work with either upstart or systemd? This seems like the kind of system detail that's relatively binary: either you use one, or the other, but not both.

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Patrick Goetz | My only concern: wouldn't this then require that every binary package | would have to be built to work with either upstart or systemd? This | seems like the kind of system detail that's relatively binary: either | you use one, or the other, but not both. As long as there's

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Phillip Susi
On 5/10/2011 6:46 AM, Steffen Barszus wrote: So the discussion should be on how to evaluate systemd , and set a number of criterias to benchmark both. Then the better one should be planned for slow migration. Look its new and it has bells and whistles lets move to that is not a valid argument

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Phillip Susi
On 5/10/2011 4:15 PM, James Hunt wrote: If you are seeing strange behaviour, please raise bugs so we can look at them. It is a design limitation AFAIK, not a bug. At least the last time I asked SJR about it, Upstart doesn't use cgroups to track children like systemd does, and so it looses

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread James Hunt
Hi Phillip, On 10/05/11 18:39, Phillip Susi wrote: On 5/10/2011 6:46 AM, Steffen Barszus wrote: So the discussion should be on how to evaluate systemd , and set a number of criterias to benchmark both. Then the better one should be planned for slow migration. Look its new and it has bells

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 11/05/2011 04:45, Phillip Susi wrote: It is a design limitation AFAIK, not a bug. At least the last time I asked SJR about it, Upstart doesn't use cgroups to track children like systemd does, and so it looses track of children of the jobs it creates, such as programs the logged in user

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 11/05/2011 08:56, Phillip Susi wrote: That screen session should be run by init as a parallel service to gdm so it can be started or stopped when appropriate, with or without gdm. Sorry, but this sounds really ridiculous right now. If systemd really prevents the creation of background

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-09 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/2011 07:03 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Samstag, den 30.04.2011, 18:24 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bechtold: Hi, i just want to know if there are any plans to replace upstart[1] with systemd[2] for 11.10? I have to say I was skeptical

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Patrick, On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 03:39:37PM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: Woh, slow down there, partner. If Ubuntu is going to switch from upstart to systemd, then the sooner the better. There is nothing worse than investing time and energy learning about and working the kinks out of the

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Phillip, On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 06:11:57PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: On 05/06/2011 07:03 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Samstag, den 30.04.2011, 18:24 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bechtold: Hi, i just want to know if there are any plans to replace upstart[1] with systemd[2] for 11.10

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-09 Thread Martin Pitt
Steve Langasek [2011-05-09 12:36 +0200]: It's one thing to have a rollback plan for which desktop experience is shipped by default; that touches a handful of closely related packages. It's quite another to try to roll back an init system change, which touches every single package that's

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-09 Thread Martin Pitt
Steve Langasek [2011-05-09 11:45 +0200]: This is not a transition that I would like to see Ubuntu starting one year before the next LTS with no prior preparation. Even if Ubuntu decided to switch to systemd in the long term (which is by no means a decision that has been made yet!), switching

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-09 Thread Patrick Goetz
I think the discussion found in this bug report makes a fairly compelling argument that Ubuntu should probably migrate to systemd sooner rather than later. Note particularly that a take away message from this is that services like apache and postfix will need to continue to use sysV init

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-09 Thread Patrick Goetz
From: Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 11:45:56 +0200 And let's not forget that, for anyone tracking the LTS, upstart is*already* the system in use for the previous LTS, 10.04. The fundamentals of how upstart will work in 12.04 LTS are the same as in 10.04 LTS;

Re: systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-08 Thread Patrick Goetz
From: Oliver Grawert o...@ubuntu.com Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 01:03:26 +0200 Am Samstag, den 30.04.2011, 18:24 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bechtold: i just want to know if there are any plans to replace upstart[1] with systemd[2] for 11.10? http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/why-ubuntu

systemd for 11.10 ?

2011-05-06 Thread Thomas Bechtold
Hi, i just want to know if there are any plans to replace upstart[1] with systemd[2] for 11.10? Cheers, Tom [1] http://upstart.at/ [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu