[chiark.chat] Re: RFH: sysvinit etc. in Debian

[Mark Hindley]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 11:01:17PM +0100, Andreas Messer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:01:12PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:37:15PM +0100, Lorenz wrote:
> > >    Hi Ian, Mark
> > >    I'm switching to your packaging and i've spotted few issues, althought
> > >    i'm a bit in a rush so i may be wrong (forgive me in that case)
> > >    * you are starting elogind twice each boot, first with dbus and than
> > >    with a sysv script, you're not catching this with 'log_end_msg' because
> > >    the second instance of       elogind print a message but exit 0. This
> > >    is not a problem for sysv but it is with runit, it will keep restarting
> > >    elogind forever (twice per second)
> > >        For me, having a 'Exec=/sbin/false' in
> > >    /usr/share/dbus-1/system-service/org.freedesktop.login1.service is
> > >    working.
> > 
> > Yes, I have just noticed that this afternoon too.
> > 
> > Andreas, was there a reason you wrote an init script rather than relying on dbus
> > activation?
> 
> Honestly, I didn't even know that there was dbus activation for 
> elogind. However, that shouldn't lead to starting the daemon twice. I
> mean, dbus should only start the daemon if the dbus service is not yet
> registered. And when started through init scripts, it would expect it to 
> be already registered.

Yes, I thought that too.  I wonder why runit is not allowing the running daemon
to be detected?

Mark