Ticket #701 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

reactivate should not unnecsssarily spam .xsession-errors

Reported by: jdreed Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone: Natty Alpha
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

Currently, when we restart CUPS inside the chroot, it spams .xsession-errors with:

* Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
   ...done.
invoke-rc.d.debathena-orig: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/cupsys not found.

This is annoying and possibly confuses users.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed

  • Status changed from new to committed

It wasn't so much starting CUPS as the error about cupsys not being found, which confused us when we asked users to look for errors in their .xsession-errors, or when they briefly saw it in the tcsh-sucks xterm and assumed that something bad had happened.

This is because reactivate's policy-rc.d makes no effort to determine what the CUPS initscript is called.

Fixed in r25019, but someone should review this, in case there's weirdness about what policy-rc.d should and shouldn't do.

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed

Can I get an ACK on r25019 please?

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed

  • Status changed from committed to development
   debathena / trac-#701 / andersk  16:43  (Anders Kaseorg)                     
       debathena / svn / jdreed  22:46  (This zephyr does not necessarily reflec
           Can I have an explicit ack on r25019 please, to confirm that what I d
           to policy-rc.d is sane?                                              
       debathena / svn / andersk  00:21  (Anders Kaseorg)                       
           Looks alright.                                                       
                                                                                
       So, sure, ACK.                                                           

comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed

  • Status changed from development to proposed

comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by kaduk

We will need to revisit this for Natty, which wants us to use the service(8) utility. This may require more logic in the code.

+ schroot -r -c login-b27588d9-1c53-40b8-b129-3b3f183faa96 -u root -- invoke-rc.d cups start
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service cups start

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the start(8) utility, e.g. start cups

comment:6 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed

  • Status changed from proposed to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

This moved into production now. It's unclear that we need to switch to service (i.e., it's unclear that it's a deprecation message vs a "You're doing it wrong" message). If we do want/need to switch to service, open another ticket.

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