Publication jobs don't start after package install

[Mathias Gug]

When installing eucalyptus-* packages, *-publication jobs are not started. Thus autoregistration fails for package-based installation.

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

One solution could be to drop the --noscripts option from dh_installinit in debian/rules so that relevant upstart jobs are actually started on package installation.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

One issue is that even if publication was run, autoregistration would fail because the upstream credentials are missing from eucalyptus authorized_keys...

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:42:31PM -0000, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> One issue is that even if publication was run, autoregistration would
> fail because the upstream credentials are missing from eucalyptus
> authorized_keys...
>

Right. Could the publication job be only started if the credentials are
available?

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Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

It could poll for key presence in a loop in pre-start.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Created bug 513722 to specifically track "Publication jobs should not start if authorized_keys is missing"
This bug is about triggering the publication upstart jobs on package install.

I see why --noscripts is used on the other upstart scripts (they handle their start themselves), but it doesn't seem warranted for the *publication.upstart ones (which don't have a postinst).

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Could be solved with a similar method to that proposed in Bug #503180, where we depend on an event, which a psuedo upstart job that loops until it can emit such a signal.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

This is not a duplicate of upstart issues.
The issue here is that publication.upstart jobs are installed --noscripts, which prevents them from starting up right after package install.
I'd agree that bug 513722, which is about what the publication job should do, could be solved in a common way with bug 503180. But this one is just an installer failure, not an upstart issue.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Gotcha. Sorry!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package eucalyptus - 1.6.2~bzr1189-0ubuntu1

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eucalyptus (1.6.2~bzr1189-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Thierry Carrez ]
  * debian/rules: Start publication jobs on package install (LP: #504326)
  * debian/*publication.upstart: Do not advertise Walrus, SC, CC or NC if
    eucalyptus authorized_keys is missing, since autoregistration would then
    partially fail (LP: #513722)

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * Merge from upstream bzr revision, should fix:
    - LP: #453416 - fix metadata subdirectory lists
    - LP: #513842 - fix metadata ephemeral verbage
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:32:06 -0600