memcached not able to be started with invoke-rc.d

[Dominic Scheirlinck]

Binary package hint: memcached

While memcached is able to be stopped by using invoke-rc.d, trying to start it fails silently:

dominic@dom3000:~$ sudo invoke-rc.d memcached stop
Stopping memcached: memcached.
dominic@dom3000:~$ sudo invoke-rc.d memcached start

Calling the init.d script directly, meanwhile, is successful:

dominic@dom3000:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/memcached start
Starting memcached: memcached.

[Dominic Scheirlinck (dominics)]

ominic@dom3000:~$ memcached -i
memcached 1.1.12
[...]

dominic@dom3000:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

This is probably why 'sudo apt-get install memcached' doesn't start it and you have to manually do 'sudo /etc/init.d/memcached start'. This is on Hardy, btw.

[FGM (fgm)]

Problem is still here on Jaunty.

[Fili (rogerwilco)]

Confirmed on Jaunty

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I noticed that the package version your bugging is updated in Maverick. Please update via www.ubuntu.com repost a detailed error report, and update the bug status. Thanks!

[Dominic Scheirlinck (dominics)]

Looks like this was fixed in either Karmic or Lucid

dominic@dominic-desktop:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l

dominic@dominic-desktop:~$ sudo invoke-rc.d memcached stop
[sudo] password for dominic:
Stopping memcached: memcached.
dominic@dominic-desktop:~$ sudo invoke-rc.d memcached start
Starting memcached: memcached.