| slaskis | when a script fails to start, can i get a log somewhere on what failed? | 13:22 |
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| SpamapS | slaskis: the latest version of upstart, 1.4, has automatic logging of job output built in | 14:57 |
| slaskis | SpamapS: great, i'm working on upgrading my ubuntu now to get a newer upstart... | 14:57 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: prior versions, you'll need to pipe output to something like logger, or to a file | 14:57 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: heh.. precise is the only version that has this.. so be aware that you are upgrading to an alpha version of ubuntu. :) | 14:59 |
| slaskis | SpamapS: i wasn't aware that precise existed until it upgraded to it | 14:59 |
| slaskis | and being alpha explains why it doesn't start ;/ | 14:59 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: typically the best wway to do upgrades is 'do-release-upgrade', I presume you dist-upgraded after changing sources.list ? | 15:02 |
| slaskis | i did do-release-upgrade | 15:02 |
| SpamapS | ah | 15:02 |
| SpamapS | and you're getting a fail to boot? | 15:02 |
| slaskis | yeah, well unfortunately i followed this http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=upgrade_ubuntu-server_lts_to_lts and since i kept getting "no new release" (although I knew that 10.04 was not the latest) i used --devel-release and got the alpha one…it's not the end of the world as i'm playing with a vm but still | 15:04 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: would be very interested to hear how it is failing to boot.. now is the time to fix those bugs | 15:30 |
| slaskis | SpamapS: it's this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/936667 | 15:30 |
| slaskis | you don't happen to know how i can "add --no-log as a kernel option" ? | 15:31 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: what kind of VM is this? on physical systems you add it at grub boot time | 15:32 |
| slaskis | it's a linode instance | 15:32 |
| slaskis | so, i guess kvm? | 15:32 |
| slaskis | i managed to boot with "init=/bin/bash" | 15:34 |
| slaskis | where i don't get those logs | 15:34 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: ah, you can probably manually bring up the network and install an earlier version of upstart that doesn't have logging enabled | 15:34 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: wait, if you can say 'init=/bin/bash' you can say, in the same place, --no-log | 15:35 |
| slaskis | SpamapS: unfortunately not :/ it's a simple radio select in a web interface | 15:35 |
| slaskis | options are "default run level", "single user mode" and "init=/bin/bash" | 15:36 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: hrm.. you need upstart 1.4-0ubuntu6 | 15:38 |
| slaskis | SpamapS: ah, I have 1.4.0ubuntu8 now | 15:45 |
| slaskis | how would i install an older version, doesn't seem like apt-get is usable in this console | 15:49 |
| slaskis | "Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/" | 15:49 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: mount / -o remount,rw | 15:50 |
| SpamapS | slaskis: make sure, before you exit your shell, that you 'mount / -o remount,ro' | 15:51 |
| slaskis | SpamapS: ooh, it only mounts read only | 15:51 |
| slaskis | thanks | 15:51 |
| slaskis | ok, another noob question then :P how do i make apt-get find an older package? "apt-get install upstart=1.4.0ubuntu6" doesn't find that version (because it's not in the cache?) | 15:52 |
| kklimonda | JanC: thanks, it looks like that I'be been looking for | 17:02 |
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