kdump-tools does not have an upstart job

[Louis Bouchard]

[SRU justification]
The upstart job avoids the sysVinit scripts to be run while kdump-tools is doing the kernel crash dump capture

[Impact]
Potential impossibility to capture a kernel crash dump

[Fix]
Add kdump-tools.conf upstart job

[Test Case]
With the upstart job, the kdump-tools kernel dump capture will run before any of the tasks triggered by RUNLEVEL [2345] will run.

[Regression]
Minimal; The job uses the same syntax as the sysVinit job currently in use.

[Original description of the problem]

kdump-tools relies on a sysVinit script to capture the kernel dump. It sometimes gets interference from other jobs starting at runlevels 2 to 5.

An upstart job starting before RUNLEVEL is emitted would alleviate that.

[Louis Bouchard (louis)]

Marking dev release as invalid since it relies on systemd

[Louis Bouchard (louis)]

The upstart job has been uploaded to Debian and made available in 1:1.5.8-2

This is the related bug : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788313

1:1.5.8-2 is now in Wily so the upstart job needs to be SRUed to Trusty

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Hello Louis, or anyone else affected,

Accepted makedumpfile into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/1.5.5-2ubuntu1.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Louis Bouchard (louis)]

-proposed upload tested positively on Trusty

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package makedumpfile - 1.5.5-2ubuntu1.3

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makedumpfile (1.5.5-2ubuntu1.3) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Add upstart job to minimize interferences from sysVinit scripts
    during kernel crash dump collection. (LP: #1466013)

 -- Louis Bouchard <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:16:13 +0200

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for makedumpfile has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.