upstart does not start cupsd and nut/upsd
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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upstart (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
On my 10.04.3 LTS cupsd never starts automatically, although it is configured to do so. Even manually adding cupsd to the Start Programs dialog doesn't do the trick.
Starting cupsd manually works absolutely flawless.
The same happens with nutd. Nut is never started automatically, but start with no errors when done from a shell.
I have browsed several bug reports on and off Launchpad describing the problem as a bug in Upstart (Upstart experiencing a race condition that may render the console read-only), that was already fixed by the Upstart devs. There is also a Launchpad bug - that is closed because there is a bugfix. But as long as the bugfix is not rolled out to users... Several people beg to re-open this.
I am using 10.04 LTS - and it still sticks to version 0.6.5-8 of upstart. Obvoiously no modern version of Upstart ever got released for Lucid. I cannot upgrade Upstart without major operations beyond normal packet installation routine, and I do not want to risk rendering my system unusable if Upstart completely fails after upgrading it to unsupported versions.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: upstart 0.6.5-8
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-37-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 15 23:20:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upstart
summary: |
- upstart does not start cupsd and nutd + upstart does not start cupsd and nut/upsd |
No problem with cups butI have the same problem for nut in Ubuntu Precise (1204) - nut starts no error from a console command (/etc/init.d/nut start) but does not start automatically. Much searching has not returned any further help. I tried putting a nut.conf in /etc/init like :-
start on runlevel [2345]
# respawn
# expect fork
exec /etc/init.d/nut start
and that works if I issue a "start nut" but still no auto start. Tried with and without the "respawn" and "expect fork" - no difference but I expect there would not be anyway. I don't see any errors in the syslog. Nothing in nut.log either.
The standard package works perfectly in Ubuntu Oneiric (1110).
I absolutely cannot move to 1204 with this outstanding - our main supply here is unreliable at times and a UPS is essential. Any progress?