[01:07] <cwright> hi, I have a box that has been cleanly dist-upgraded from dapper->edgy->feisty, and I am having some issues with upstart
[01:07] <cwright> I originally asked on #ubuntu, but was referred here
[01:08] <cwright> anyway, when I run 'initctl list', i see all the events waiting, except none of the tty's are shown in the listing
[01:10] <cwright> this is a problem because I am trying to add a 'svscan' file to the events.d directory, but it does not start upon boot
[01:10] <cwright> any suggestions?   I can provide more information if that would be helpful
[06:57] <cwright> anyone here who can help with upstart issue?
[07:01] <AlexExtreme> i might be able to help, but can you give me 10 minutes :) my dinner is ready
[07:01] <AlexExtreme> brb
[07:01] <cwright> heh sure thing :)
[07:26] <AlexExtreme> back
[07:26] <AlexExtreme> cwright, what did you want to ask? :)
[07:27] <cwright> hi AlexExtreme, hope you enjoyed your dinner :)   
[07:27] <AlexExtreme> i did, thanks :p
[07:27] <cwright> I posted my question in here yesterday, but got no responses, I'll paste what I wrote again
[07:27] <cwright> I have a box that has been cleanly dist-upgraded from dapper->edgy->feisty, and I am having some issues with upstart
[07:27] <cwright> when I run 'initctl list', i see all the events waiting, except none of the tty's are shown in the listing
[07:27] <cwright> this is a problem because I am trying to add a 'svscan' file to the events.d directory, but it does not start upon boot
[07:28] <AlexExtreme> hmm....
[07:28] <cwright> also, none of the tty's are started
[07:28] <AlexExtreme> are you using a custom kernel?
[07:29] <cwright> no, straight feisty server kernel
[07:29] <AlexExtreme> hang on
[07:30] <AlexExtreme> let me check my feisty install
[07:30] <cwright> ok
[07:30] <AlexExtreme> do the tty job files physically exist in /etc/event.d?
[07:30] <cwright> yup
[07:31] <cwright> here is what I see with initctl list:
[07:31] <cwright> /etc/event.d# initctl list
[07:31] <cwright> control-alt-delete (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> logd (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rc-default (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rc0 (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rc1 (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rc2 (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rc3 (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rc4 (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rc5 (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rc6 (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rcS (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> rcS-sulogin (stop) waiting
[07:31] <cwright> sulogin (stop) waiting
[07:31] <AlexExtreme> could you pastebin the content of one of the tty files? (http://rafb.net/paste)
[07:32] <cwright> svscan (start) running, process 4224
[07:32] <cwright> I manually started svscan with 'initctl start svscan', at boot nothing starts, they all go into waiting
[07:32] <cwright> sure, one sec
[07:32] <AlexExtreme> and don't paste large amounts of text in here
[07:32] <AlexExtreme> :)
[07:33] <cwright> i am curious if it has to do with the dist-upgrade from edgy to feisty
[07:33] <cwright> http://rafb.net/p/OS2sbu29.html
[07:33] <AlexExtreme> yes, there's a syntax error in those files
[07:33] <cwright> what is it?
[07:33] <AlexExtreme> remove all the tty files in /etc/event.d, uninstall the system-services package and reinstall it
[07:34] <AlexExtreme> it *should* recreate those files
[07:34] <cwright> ok, this is a live box, is that going to affect anything running?
[07:34] <AlexExtreme> shouldn't do
[07:34] <cwright> i understand init intimately, upstart not so much :)
[07:35] <AlexExtreme> :)
[07:35] <cwright> ok, let me uninstall and reinstall real quick
[07:36] <cwright> this is what I am seeing: http://rafb.net/p/JpewkK75.html\
[07:36] <cwright> err, no slash on there
[07:36] <cwright> is that safe to continue with?
[07:37] <AlexExtreme> mmm no
[07:37] <AlexExtreme> just aptitude install it rather than uninstalling first
[07:37] <cwright> ok
[07:38] <cwright> did that, no new tty files in /etc/event.d/  though
[07:38] <AlexExtreme> hrm
[07:38] <AlexExtreme> hang on
[07:41] <cwright> can you pastebin your tty files and I can just replace mine?
[07:41] <cwright> that would be good enough, i just need to get this to work
[07:42] <AlexExtreme> hold on, i'm uploading an archive containing mine
[07:44] <AlexExtreme> cwright, http://www.alex-smith.me.uk/files/ttys.tbz2
[07:44] <AlexExtreme> just get that file, cd /etc/event.d, tar -xvjf /path/to/ttys.tbz2
[07:45] <cwright> got it, thanks a bunch, let me try this out
[07:48] <cwright> AlexExtreme: i really appreciate your help, after looking at the files closer i see the syntax error, should have caught that before
[07:49] <cwright> i'm digging upstart, i much prefer it now
[07:49] <AlexExtreme> yes, i'm going to assume that those errors were caused by a bug in the migrate-inittab.pl script
[07:49] <AlexExtreme> i'll tell Keybuk about it later
[07:49] <AlexExtreme> so, it's working now?
[07:50] <cwright> well, i was able to start tty1, and i am rebooting the box now to see if svscan starts at boot as it should
[07:50] <cwright> i should be able to tell you in a few minutes
[07:50] <AlexExtreme> k
[07:52] <cwright> yup, works great!   
[07:52] <cwright> the box started, all ttys, and svscan
[07:53] <cwright> so you are probably right about the bug.  these were clean dapper installs, migrated to edgy, and feisty all in a matter of about 30 minutes
[07:55] <cwright> ok, well, that's all i needed help with.  thanks again AlexExtreme 
[07:55] <AlexExtreme> no problem