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Eric Connell (0cs935kb517w-eric-wz6bkyhu4uqp) wrote : Upstart job config and init.d script are incompatible with each other

Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10

mysql-server-5.5:
  Installed: 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
  Candidate: 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 0
        500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.5.32-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages

In Ubuntu 13.10, the Upstart job and the init.d script do not work properly. In previous versions, the init.d script was a symlink to the wrapper script around upstart (/lib/init/upstart-job). This conflict means that if the server was started using the init.d script, upstart does not recognize that the server is running and will attempt to start a second instance of mysqld.

Also problematic is that if the upstart job is started using the service or start commands, the init.d script's "stop" function runs a mysql shutdown, but upstart simply restarts mysqld (because it's marked respawn in the upstart config).