On 3 December 2015 at 17:41, Mark Stosberg <m...@stosberg.com> wrote: > In Bug #1521771, I spent some time tracking down different behavior > between the mysql-5.5 "init" and "upstart" scripts. They differ on how > many seconds are waited between the SIGTERM and SIGKILL signals are > sent. Different values can mean the difference between a slower clean > shutdown and a shutdown interrupted by a SIGKILL signal. > > In the case of that of that package, redirecting the "init.d" calls to > the upstart script will have a positive impact in my opinion-- giving > more time for MySQL to shutdown cleanly. So the proposed patch will be > functionally helpful. > > I do suggest that for any package that's affected by this, the "init.d" > script should be cleaned out, so only the code remains that redirects > people to the upstart script. > > There is nothing about this line of code in an "init.d" script which > indicates that that all the code below it is about to ignored: > > . /lib/lsb/init-functions > > Nor does the proposed patch emit any output that confirms that redirect > is happened. The result is that someone could pull their hair out > wondering why the "init.d" script is not behaving as expected. > > Realize that there are packages like "ec2-consistent-snapshot" which > exist only in a PPA and make a hardcoded call to "/etc/init.d/mysql". It > does that in hopes of working on non-Debian-based systems as well. (The > package is also several years old, from an era when init.d scripts were > more common). I'm not sure what small projects are supposed to when > they want to issue a command like "stop mysql" in a way that might work > across SysV init scripts, upstart and systemd.
Across all distros and init systems the following works, and does the right thing, for the right init: service mysql stop -- Regards, Dimitri. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1273462 Title: Users can mistakenly run init.d scripts and cause problems if an equivalent upstart job already exists To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/+bug/1273462/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
