Latest update disables irqbalance with no offer to configure

Bug #705429 reported by Doug McMahon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
irqbalance (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
James Page

Bug Description

Binary package hint: irqbalance

the 0.56-1ubuntu1 (2) update in natty has disabled irqbalance with no configure during the update
Not sure what then intention is, seems to not be in keeping with changelog/bug fixed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: irqbalance 0.56-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 20 09:02:39 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110119)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: irqbalance

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :
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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

Changed in irqbalance (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote :

here you go -
As the daemon was by default configured before update

0.56-0ubuntu2
#Configuration for the irqbalance daemon

#Should irqbalance be enabled?
ENABLED="1"
#Balance the IRQs only once?
ONESHOT="0"

After update to 0.56-1ubuntu2 (no configure screen pops up
#Configuration for the irqbalance daemon

#Should irqbalance be enabled?
ENABLED="0"
#Balance the IRQs only once?
ONESHOT="0"

After update manually running sudo dpkg-reconfigure irqbalance and choosing yes to both options

#Configuration for the irqbalance daemon

#Should irqbalance be enabled?
ENABLED="1"
#Balance the IRQs only once?
ONESHOT="1"

Changed in irqbalance (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
James Page (james-page)
Changed in irqbalance (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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James Page (james-page) wrote :

I can confirm that settings are not preserved during an upgrade; debian/irqbalance.config does not correctly translate 0|1 into false|true so the debian/irqbalance.postinst script always defaults them back to '0' as the values stored in the debconf database are ENABLED and ONESHOT.

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James Page (james-page) wrote :

As I can't seem to locate a bzr branch for this package attaching a proposed patch.

Changed in irqbalance (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
James Page (james-page)
Changed in irqbalance (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → James Page (james-page)
status: Triaged → In Progress
tags: added: patch
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package irqbalance - 0.56-1ubuntu3

---------------
irqbalance (0.56-1ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * Fixed debian/irqbalance.config to correctly pickup existing
    settings from /etc/default/irqbalance (LP: #705429)
 -- James Page <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:36:50 +0000

Changed in irqbalance (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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