ctrlaltdel sequence not recognised by upstart

[Elias Oltmanns]

 affects /distros/ubuntu/upstart
 assignee <email address hidden>
 importance medium

With upstart and upstart-compat-sysv installed, I have the following
problem:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
pts/1_21:32_~% grep ctrlalt /etc/inittab
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now
pts/1_21:32_~%
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

But pressing the magic key combination apparently has no effect whatsoever.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Upgrade to 0.2.1-7, this includes a handler for the control-alt-delete event.

[Elias Oltmanns (oltmanns)]

 status needsinfo

Scott James Remnant <email address hidden> wrote:
> Upgrade to 0.2.1-7, this includes a handler for the control-alt-delete
> event.

I can see the event handler now but I still can't trigger the event,
apparently.

[Michael Biebl (mbiebl)]

I can confirm this bug (running 0.2.1-7).
Triggering the event manually via "initctl trigger ctrl-alt-delete" does not have any effect either. A concurrently running "initctl events" shows that it received the event but nothing happens.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Yes, you're quite right. The problem is that the event and job share the same name, and I put an odd restriction in to make that illegal. That will be fixed shortly.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

 upstart (0.2.5-1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release:
     - no longer spins when no stalled event handler. Ubuntu: #59170.
     - shutdown works when under sysvinit. Ubuntu: #58523;
     - shutdown -k implemented. Ubuntu: #58723.
     - telinit sends shutdown event for 0, 1 and 6. Ubuntu: #58913.
     - basic manual pages included. Ubuntu: #58724.
 .
   * upstart-compat-sysv Replaces: sysvinit. Ubuntu: #59427.
   * upstart Recommends: upstart-compat-sysv, startup-tasks & system-services.
 .
   * New upstart-logd package includes the logd daemon that can will log
     output of jobs with "console logged" (the default) in their description
     to /var/log/boot.
 .
   * Add /etc/event.d/rc0 that is run on the "halt" event (neither -H or -P
     given), and modify rc0-halt to run on "system-halt" (-H given) and
     rc0-poweroff to run on "power-off" (-P given). Ubuntu: #59134.
   * Fix the control-alt-delete job to run on the "ctrlaltdel" event so
     that it's triggered properly. Ubuntu: #59398.
   * Fix single-user mode.