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Move daemons without an upstart job out of the user's cgroup

Asked by Matteo Panella

I'm facing a rather peculiar issue with Ubuntu 14.04: whenever a daemon with an initscript (instead of an upstart job) is started/restarted (either as a direct administrative action or as a consequence of a package installation/update), it's placed inside the user's session cgroup. This causes the session to linger in the "closing" state after logout, so logind does not properly clean up resources and device ACLs.

My current (ugly) workaround is spawning a new shell, putting it under the root systemd cgroup via cgmanager's MovePidAbs call and then start/restart the daemon.

Is it just a configuration issue, a bug or "working as intended"?

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Matteo Panella (mpanella) said : 		#1

After getting in touch with Steve Langasek, I opened the linked bug report.

Until the issue is fixed (if ever), the MovePidAbs is the only viable workaround.

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