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dpkg package

  1. Bug #1007433
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1007433

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote : Re: zookeeperd not running after installation of zookeeperd

Scott, good call. That was definitely a red herring.

So this appears to be a circular dependency problem with dpkg... because

zookeeperd -> zookeeper -> default-jre-headless -> openjdk-7-jre-headless

This should always guarantee that openjdk-7-jre-headless is configured before zookeeperd. Instead it is somehow being configured *after* default-jre-headless and thus, the alternatives are not set up.

There is a workaround.. if you install with --no-install-recommends

The order is correct.

This also exposes two other bugs to me:

1) /var/lib/zookeeper should belong to zookeeper
2) the upstart job should be reporting the failure, not 'start/running'