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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

reassign 636054 sysvinit-utils
thanks

On lun., 2011-08-01 at 10:51 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 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.

Replying to myself: because 'service' has a compatibility layer for
upstart which I don't get at all:

----
if [ -r "/etc/init/${SERVICE}.conf" ]; then
   # Upstart configuration exists for this job
   case "${ACTION}" in
      start|stop|restart|status|reload)
         # Action is a valid upstart action
         exec ${ACTION} ${SERVICE} ${OPTIONS}
      ;;
      force-reload)
         # Upstart just uses reload for force-reload
         exec reload ${SERVICE} ${OPTIONS}
      ;;
   esac
fi
----

How could that even work? I think it misses ${SERVICE} before ${ACTION}
or something.

Reassigning then.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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