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| cks_ | Hi, I am facing some problem in starting a job automatically by upstart. However if I run "start myjob", it gets started without any errors. Any pointers to debug is appreciated | 13:49 |
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| xnox | cks_: maybe your "start on" condition is not correct. | 13:53 |
| xnox | cks_: you can use upstart-monitor to see which events are emitted. | 13:53 |
| xnox | cks_: can you paste your job to e.g. paste.ubuntu.com ? | 13:53 |
| cks_ | xnox: I pasted my script here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6808440/ | 13:55 |
| cks_ | xnox: I am using upstart 0.3.11 | 13:56 |
| cks_ | as shown in the script. pulseaudio depends on audiod. audiod is up and running. I verified with initctl status audiod | 13:57 |
| xnox | cks_: your job appears to be correct, but I have no knoweledge / experience of upstart 0.3.11 however. | 13:58 |
| xnox | maybe jodh can help you with this ^ | 13:59 |
| cks_ | xnox: ok | 14:00 |
| jodh | cks_: presumably you are running some sort of custom distro? I'd definitely recommend upgrading the upstart package if so as we've added lots of features to make debugging easier. | 14:01 |
| jodh | cks_: golden rule job writing new jobs is to *not* specify respawn until you are sure it is doing what you want: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#respawn | 14:02 |
| jodh | cks_: also, http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#checking-how-a-service-might-react-when-run-as-a-job, http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#determining-why-your-service-fails-to-start. | 14:03 |
| jodh | cks_: at a guess I wonder if when audiod starts, pulseaudio cannot start as /run is not mounted? Take a look at /etc/init/pulseaudio.conf on a modern ubuntu system to see how it works with current versions of pulse and upstart. | 14:04 |
| cks_ | jodh: but when I run manually "start pulseaudio" it starts without problem. thanks for the links. | 14:04 |
| jodh | cks_: then, there must be an error in the 'start on' - are you sure your other job is called /etc/init/audiod.conf and that that daemon is actually running with the expected pid? | 14:05 |
| cks_ | Actually audiod upstart script is present in /etc/event.d/ | 14:08 |
| cks_ | even pulseaudio script lies at the same place | 14:08 |
| jodh | cks_: wow, use of that directory is before my time :) | 14:10 |
| xnox | jodh: i wonder if that upstart already was using "start on started $job" syntax =) | 14:13 |
| xnox | cks_: what's the start on condition of the audiod? maybe copy that into pulseaudio or some such? | 14:14 |
| jodh | yes, maybe back then it was "starte I sayeth forsooth ..." | 14:14 |
| jodh | cks_: try booting with --debug and capturing syslog/dmesg which will show the event flows. | 14:18 |
| xnox | jodh: =))))))) | 14:19 |
| cks_ | jodh: thanks for the input | 14:30 |
| SpamapS | you know.. one unfortunate thing about console log is that programs think they're talking to a tty and thus print with cr's instead of just newlines | 18:54 |
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