[Bug 1047262] Re: race condition on startup between samba and cups

[James Page]

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Hi Steve

On 07/09/12 16:36, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> if status cups >/dev/null ; then start wait-for-state WAITER=smbd
> WAIT_FOR=cups WAIT_STATE=running fi
> 
> This solution has the effect that if the cups job is broken for
> any reason, smbd will also not be started.  I don't think that's
> desirable.
> 
> We've tried hard in the past to ensure samba is *not* dependent on
> cups being present before samba starts.  I think this would be
> better done as a job in the samba package which is 'start on
> started cups' and will prompt samba to reload its config.

I'd not considered doing it that way - it would de-couple samba
startup from cups which I agree is preferable - I'll take a look and
do the rework early next week.

Thanks for the feedback.

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James Page
Ubuntu Core Developer
Debian Maintainer
james.page at ubuntu.com
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Title:
  race condition on startup between samba and cups

Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “samba” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “samba” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  As seen in bug 967410 is possible for cups to start after smbd - if
  samba is configured to retrieve printer information from cups it fails
  and printers are not automatically configured.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: samba (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Sep  7 10:58:35 2012
  SambaServerRegression: Yes
  SmbConfIncluded: Yes
  SourcePackage: samba
  UbuntuFailedConnect: Yes
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (88 days ago)

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