[Bug 916956] Re: upstart does not start cupsd and nut/upsd

[Bill Turner]

No problem with cups butI have the same problem for nut in Ubuntu
Precise (1204) - nut starts no error from a console command
(/etc/init.d/nut start) but does not start automatically. Much searching
has not returned any further help. I tried putting a nut.conf in
/etc/init like :-

start on runlevel [2345]
# respawn
# expect fork
exec /etc/init.d/nut start

and that works if I issue a "start nut"  but still no auto start.  Tried with and without the "respawn" and "expect fork" - no difference but I expect there would not be anyway. I don't see any errors in the syslog. Nothing in nut.log either.
The standard package works perfectly in Ubuntu Oneiric (1110).
I absolutely cannot move to 1204 with this outstanding - our main supply here is unreliable at times and a UPS is essential. Any progress?

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Title:
  upstart does not start cupsd and nut/upsd

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On my 10.04.3 LTS cupsd never starts automatically, although it is
  configured to do so. Even manually adding cupsd to the Start Programs
  dialog doesn't do the trick.

  Starting cupsd manually works absolutely flawless.

  The same happens with nutd. Nut is never started automatically, but
  start with no errors when done from a shell.

  I have browsed several bug reports on and off Launchpad describing the
  problem as a bug in Upstart (Upstart experiencing a race condition
  that may render the console read-only), that was already fixed by the
  Upstart devs.  There is also a Launchpad bug - that is closed because
  there is a bugfix. But as long as the bugfix is not rolled out to
  users... Several people beg to re-open this.

  I am using 10.04 LTS - and it still sticks to version 0.6.5-8 of
  upstart. Obvoiously no modern version of Upstart ever got released for
  Lucid. I cannot upgrade Upstart without major operations beyond normal
  packet installation routine, and I do not want to risk rendering my
  system unusable if Upstart completely fails after upgrading it to
  unsupported versions.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: upstart 0.6.5-8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-37.81-generic 2.6.32.49+drm33.21
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-37-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Jan 15 23:20:45 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart

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