Activity log for bug #1324627

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2014-05-29 17:15:47 Robert Chekaluk bug added bug
2014-05-29 17:16:42 Robert Chekaluk description Trusty 14.04. When installing a custom init script to log upstart events (see http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#record-all-jobs-and-events-which-emit-an-event), PID 1 init consumes significant CPU and events are logged by the custom script in a repeating stream, like this: upstart_events/ (/proc/self/fd/9):14382:Thu May 29 17:06:03 UTC 2014:Job startpar-bridge/upstart_events--started stopping. upstart_events/ (/proc/self/fd/9):14386:Thu May 29 17:06:03 UTC 2014:Job startpar-bridge/upstart_events--stopped stopping. upstart_events/ (/proc/self/fd/9):14390:Thu May 29 17:06:03 UTC 2014:Job startpar-bridge/upstart_events--started stopping. upstart_events/ (/proc/self/fd/9):14394:Thu May 29 17:06:03 UTC 2014:Job startpar-bridge/upstart_events--stopped stopping. It's possible that these reports are also reflect a variant of this issue: * http://askubuntu.com/questions/367079/strange-boot-log-multiple-startpar-bridge-starting-and-stopping-repeatedly * http://askubuntu.com/questions/419431/ubuntu-13-10-not-booting-startpar-bridge * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1244989/comments/3 To reproduce on Vagrant: 1. vagrant box add trusty64 https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box 2. vagrant init trusty64 3. vagrant up 4. vagrant ssh 5. Copy this script into /etc/init/upstart_events.conf: description "Log upstart events" start on ( starting JOB!=upstart_events \ or started JOB!=upstart_events \ or stopping JOB!=upstart_events \ or stopped JOB!=upstart_events ) script exec 1>>/tmp/upstart_events.log echo -n "$UPSTART_JOB/$UPSTART_INSTANCE ($0):$$:`date`:" echo "Job $JOB/$INSTANCE $UPSTART_EVENTS." end script 6. sudo reboot 7. vagrant ssh 8. tail -v /tmp/upstart_events.log Trusty 14.04. When installing a custom init script to log upstart events (see http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#record-all-jobs-and-events-which-emit-an-event), PID 1 init consumes significant CPU and events are logged by the custom script in a repeating stream, like this: upstart_events/ (/proc/self/fd/9):14382:Thu May 29 17:06:03 UTC 2014:Job startpar-bridge/upstart_events--started stopping. upstart_events/ (/proc/self/fd/9):14386:Thu May 29 17:06:03 UTC 2014:Job startpar-bridge/upstart_events--stopped stopping. upstart_events/ (/proc/self/fd/9):14390:Thu May 29 17:06:03 UTC 2014:Job startpar-bridge/upstart_events--started stopping. upstart_events/ (/proc/self/fd/9):14394:Thu May 29 17:06:03 UTC 2014:Job startpar-bridge/upstart_events--stopped stopping. It's possible that these reports are also reflect a variant of this issue: * http://askubuntu.com/questions/367079/strange-boot-log-multiple-startpar-bridge-starting-and-stopping-repeatedly * http://askubuntu.com/questions/419431/ubuntu-13-10-not-booting-startpar-bridge * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1244989/comments/3 To reproduce on Vagrant: 1. vagrant box add trusty64 https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box 2. vagrant init trusty64 3. vagrant up 4. vagrant ssh 5. Copy this script into /etc/init/upstart_events.conf: description "Log upstart events" start on ( starting JOB!=upstart_events \         or started JOB!=upstart_events \         or stopping JOB!=upstart_events \         or stopped JOB!=upstart_events ) script   exec 1>>/tmp/upstart_events.log   echo -n "$UPSTART_JOB/$UPSTART_INSTANCE ($0):$$:`date`:"   echo "Job $JOB/$INSTANCE $UPSTART_EVENTS." end script 6. sudo reboot 7. vagrant ssh 8. tail -f /tmp/upstart_events.log