Hi, There is any problem with the minion's init file? I can help with this and the package process.
I'm back with some free time :) Cheers. 2013/9/11 Joe Healy <[email protected]> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:51 PM, martin f krafft <[email protected]> > wrote: > > also sprach Joe Healy <[email protected]> [2013.09.11.0815 +0200]: > >> Running: > >> > >> salt '*' pkg.install salt-minion > >> > >> will result in the minion (and the dpkg) process being killed part > >> way through the upgrade and requiring manual interverntion. > > > > Isn't this a fundamental problem in Salt, which should be fixed > > there? I don't think that using at(1) for this is really a solution, > > but a gross hack, which still requires the admin to know what's > > going on and to wait up to 1:59 minutes. > > I agree using at (and this) is a hack. > > The principle I was working off when doing the original update of the > init.d script was that /etc/init.d/salt-minion stop should stop the > minion and all child processes. I still think this is the right thing. > > Doing this has ended up in a situation where it is difficult to > upgrade the minion without manually going around to each one. > > I agree with the point about it being fixed in salt. I think they > should probably handle signals differently when they are updating > packages (maybe even a special case for salt itself). > > In the end I decided that it was best to relax the killing all > processes until this can be resolved properly. Ending up in a > situation where each minion needs "dpkg --configure -a && apt-get -f > install" to be run manually after someone seemed to be the worst > situation possible. > > I'm yet to file a bug upstream, but will do so. > > In the mean time, I have already uploaded a package with the change > reverted. I believe it would be possible for me to either stop that > package (possibly dcut). > > If you have any advice, it would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-salt-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-salt-team >
