[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#636054: Bug#636054: The lightdm service can't be handled by the "service" utility

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam., 2011-07-30 at 12:14 -0300, Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos wrote:
> I think the problem is that the lightdm package installs an upstart
> init
> script. /usr/sbin/service thinks upstart is available and fails to
> start
> lightdm:
> 
> fernando at munchkin:~$ sudo service openntpd restart
> Restarting openntpd: ntpd.
> fernando at munchkin:~$ sudo service lightdm restart
> exec: 129: restart: not found
> fernando at munchkin:~$ 
> 
> I guess this bug could also have been filed against sysvinit-utils,
> but
> on the other hand, I'm not sure we're supposed to be shipping upstart
> init files yet. The "service" utility has no problem whatsoever with
> packages that ship systemd init files (and it works with systemd), but
> seems to choke on upstart init files. 

I've taken the time to look a bit more at this and I'm wondering. Why do
you think this has anything to do with /etc/init/lightdm?

'service' seems to try to execute 'restart' instead of calling the right
script with argument, but that looks completely unrelated to upstart
files.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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