Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#37 closed defect (invalid)

"cereal-admin start" and "cereal-admin stop" hang on Ubuntu feisty

Reported by: dkg Owned by: jrollins
Priority: major Component: cereal
Keywords: Cc:
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Description

Some recent testing on an ubuntu feisty system indicate that a simple install of cereal leaves serious problems on those systems.

In particular, cereal-admin start foo hangs indefinitely.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by dkg

  • Resolution set to invalid
  • Status changed from new to closed

This appears to be the case on gutsy, too. And it's related to ubuntu's ​broken version of runit, which doesn't play nice with upstart. In particular, runit expects init to handle changes in /etc/inittab, which upstart doesn't care about. This leaves the runit package in a non-functioning state on a system without sysvinit. (runit is traditionally packaged for debian, for which sysvinit is an Essential package, Priority: required, so runit doesn't need to state its dependency on that package directly)

Until ubuntu fixes this bug, you can get cereal running cleanly on a feisty or gutsy system by doing the following as root:

touch /etc/inittab
aptitude install runit
cat >/etc/event.d/runsvdir <<EOF
start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5
stop on shutdown
respawn
exec /usr/sbin/runsvdir-start
EOF
start runsvdir

(closing invalid because the bug is with ubuntu's packaging of runit, not cereal)

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