Not possible to modify the status of certain services

[Jan Rathmann]

Hello,

if I try to query the status of the service "network-interface" by executing either:

service network-interface status
status network-interface
initctl status network-interface

I just get the following error message:

service network-interface status
status: Unknown parameter: INTERFACE

Modifying the status of this service (e.g. with start/stop/restart stanzas) is not possible either.
This happens in Raring and also in Quantal (early Ubuntu versions untested).

Kind regards,
Jan

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: upstart 1.5-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-3.9-generic 3.7.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-3-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 26 10:11:48 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-26 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20121126)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upstart
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1083087

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

You are attempting to query an Upstart instance job using the System V command 'service'. Instead, you should be using the 'status' command. See status(8) and http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#instance.

Also, see:

$ initctl list|grep network-interface

Examples:

$ status network-interface INTERFACE=eth0
$ sudo stop network-interface INTERFACE=eth0