Anope does not start on Ubuntu 18.04

Bug #1806006 reported by ben speakman
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anope (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

After installing anope (2.0.4-2) on Ubuntu 18.04 and starting the service with systemctl it reports the service as active. However the daemon is not launched. The following log messages are however visible in syslog:

Nov 30 09:15:00 the systemd[1]: Starting LSB: A set of IRC Services...
Nov 30 09:15:00 the systemd[1]: Started LSB: A set of IRC Services.

After investigation of the init.d script it seems it reads from this default file which contains a flag to prevent starting the service:

/etc/default/anope
https://salsa.debian.org/dom/anope/blob/master/debian/default

However there is no message anywhere that this is required. This version of the Debian package includes a message in the init script. Ideally the Ubuntu package would include something similar to provide feedback about why the service was not started.

https://github.com/piger/anope-debian/blob/dc1d00b6c9ef59e1c844e799bab2a524b45d068c/debian/anope.init#L110

If this is an acceptable solution I am happy to open a PR with the fix?

Revision history for this message
Karl Stenerud (kstenerud) wrote :

Hi Ben,

Thanks for reporting this; I agree that it makes for a lot of confusion! We'd happily accept a merge request with a fix, thanks!

Changed in anope (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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