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init-system-helpers package

invoke-rc.d does not start services in containers

Bug #1587903 reported by Martin Pitt on 2016-06-01

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu Seeds	Fix Released	Undecided	Martin Pitt
	init-system-helpers (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Martin Pitt

Bug Description

In current yakkety, invoke-rc.d start is broken in containers:

$ lxc launch images:ubuntu/yakkety/amd64 y1
$ lxc exec y1 systemctl stop cron
$ lxc exec y1 invoke-rc.d cron start
$ lxc exec y1 systemctl status cron
● cron.service - Regular background program processing daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cron.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2016-06-01 13:48:50 UTC; 9s ago

"invoke-rc.d cron stop" does seem to work, though. This is a regression in recent yakkety.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: init-system-helpers 1.34ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-23.41-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: i3
Date: Wed Jun 1 15:49:23 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: init-system-helpers
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2016-06-01:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (320 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (127.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Changed in init-system-helpers (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → Critical
assignee:	nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2016-06-01:

#2

Note that this does not affect VMs and real iron.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2016-06-01:

#3

This isn't really a regression as such, xenial's init-system-helpers does not work either. This is rather related to initscripts, sysv-rc etc. falling out of ubuntu-minimal, so invoke-rc.d somehow decides that the policy is to not run the script (RC==101).

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2016-06-01:

#4

So this shows two issues:

* We need to put sysv-rc back into required, as long as we still have packages which only ship init.d scripts, so that they get proper /etc/rc?.d/ links.

* invoke-rc.d should stop looking at rc?.d links for systemd units, and rather check if *those* are enabled.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2016-06-01:

#5

Seeded in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/platform.yakkety/revision/2070

Changed in init-system-helpers (Ubuntu Yakkety):
importance:	Critical → Medium
Changed in ubuntu-seeds:
assignee:	nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
status:	New → In Progress
Changed in init-system-helpers (Ubuntu Yakkety):
importance:	Medium → Wishlist
Changed in ubuntu-seeds:
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2016-06-01:

#6

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/init-system-helpers.git/commit/?id=6dd9d53f4f

no longer affects:	init-system-helpers (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Changed in init-system-helpers (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-06-20:

#7

This bug was fixed in the package init-system-helpers - 1.35ubuntu1

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init-system-helpers (1.35ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

* Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
- init: Drop sysvinit-core as alternative init system.

init-system-helpers (1.35) unstable; urgency=medium

  * invoke-rc.d: When running under systemd, query systemctl is-enabled
    instead of checking for rc?.d/ links. This allows operation without
    sysv-rc with packages that ship native systemd units. Packages which only
    ship an init.d script continue to need sysv-rc and runlevels, of course.
    (Closes: #827191, LP: #1587903)

-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Sun, 19 Jun 2016 21:09:01 +0200

Changed in init-system-helpers (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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