Memcached not active after reboot on 64-bit install

[fidian]

Binary package hint: memcached

The simple workaround is to open up a shell and "sudo /etc/init.d/memcached start" and it works magically until you reboot.

Not sure where to look for issues. While in /var/log, "sudo grep -i memcache debug kern.log syslog daemon.log messages dmesg" turns up nothing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: memcached 1.2.2-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: memcached
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Kenny Millington (kmdm)]

I just failed to reproduce this on karmic, although karmic does have a newer memcached version (1.2.8)

@fidian:

Can you provide the output of:-

$ find /etc -maxdepth 2 -name \*memcached\* -path \*rc?.d\*

and

$ cat /etc/default/memcached

Thanks!

[fidian (fidian)]

Gladly. I added sudo so I wouldn't get warnings with the find.

$ sudo find /etc -maxdepth 2 -name \*memcached\* -path \*rc?.d\*
/etc/rc1.d/K20memcached
/etc/rc6.d/K20memcached
/etc/rc0.d/K20memcached
/etc/rc3.d/S20memcached
/etc/rc2.d/S20memcached
/etc/rc4.d/S20memcached
/etc/rc5.d/S20memcached

/etc/default/memcached does not exist. So, I tried this:

$ sudo find /etc -name \*memcache\* | grep -v "rc.\\.d"
/etc/init.d/memcached
/etc/php5/conf.d/memcache.ini
/etc/memcached.conf

[ewgra (ewgraf)]

Also have this bug.

ewgra@ewgra-laptop:~$ sudo find /etc -maxdepth 2 -name \*memcached\* -path \*rc?.d\*
/etc/rc5.d/S20memcached
/etc/rc3.d/S20memcached
/etc/rc6.d/K20memcached
/etc/rc4.d/S20memcached
/etc/rc1.d/K20memcached
/etc/rc2.d/S20memcached
/etc/rc0.d/K20memcached

ewgra@ewgra-laptop:~$ sudo find /etc -name \*memcache\* | grep -v "rc.\\.d"
/etc/init.d/memcached
/etc/php5/conf.d/memcache.ini
/etc/memcached.conf

ewgra@ewgra-laptop:~$ ls /etc/default | grep memcache
ewgra@ewgra-laptop:~$

ewgra@ewgra-laptop:~$ memcached -h
memcached 1.2.2

[Gergely Fábián (gergely.fabian)]

I experienced it on three different computers (two has 64 bit Jaunty, one 32 bit Jaunty). Each was upgraded from Intrepid.
I have seen a fresh install of Jaunty (32 bit) where this bug was not present. Maybe it's about upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty?

[Gergely Fábián (gergely.fabian)]

Just tested a fresh install of 64 bit Jaunty, also has the bug. Maybe the updated 32 bit computer not having memcached started automatically is another issue.

[Gergely Fábián (gergely.fabian)]

On karmic I don't have the bug any more (though I had to enable memcached - without that it would not start even with /etc/init.d/memcached).

[cy (sysfold)]

32bit karmic
/etc/default/memcached
ENABLE_MEMCACHED=no

wonder how/what makes this setting to 'no' in the first place!

for the first 2months after a fresh installation of karmic along with a combo of memcached, xcache, zendaccelator, i was frustrated with the fact that not being able to login on one of the blog cms as an admin without disabling memcached func in the cms.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

As of at least Lucid, ENABLE_MEMCACHED is set to 'yes' in the default install. Marking Fix Released.