Latest update disables irqbalance with no offer to configure

[Doug McMahon]

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

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

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.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

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"

[James Page (james-page)]

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.

[James Page (james-page)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

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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