[Bug 1448924] Re: watchdogd doesn't start on boot

[Ryan Harper]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 8:18 PM, David Kowis <dkowis at shlrm.org> wrote:

> Sorry for the noise on this bug! It turns out I'm simply not waiting
> long enough for it to come up. It is being started on boot, and
> everything is working like I expect, just isn't showing up.
>
>
> I do still have the question about when it'll make it into a
> Xenial-updates repo, though.
>

It won't go into Xenial automatically.  We'd need to fix a specific bug.  I
think that for this bug in particular,
the missing [Install] section in the systemd service file (and the missing
quote) are the two changes that
we'd like backported to 5.14.

For now, in Xenial, if you apply this diff to your
/lib/systemd/system/watchdog.service file

% diff -u watchdog.service-xenial watchdog.service-yakkety
--- watchdog.service-xenial 2016-06-28 09:15:26.794096890 -0500
+++ watchdog.service-yakkety 2016-06-28 09:15:42.938657193 -0500
@@ -12,3 +12,5 @@
 ExecStopPost=/bin/sh -c '[ $run_wd_keepalive != 1 ] || false'

 [Install]
+WantedBy=default.target
+

And then:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable watchdog

And reboot

You should find watchdog service started at boot time.

If that's sufficient for you, I can start the SRU process for bringing in
the change to the service file in Xenial.

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Title:
  watchdogd doesn't start on boot

Status in watchdog package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Description:	Ubuntu 15.04
  Release:	15.04

  watchdog:
    Installed: 5.14-3
    Candidate: 5.14-3
    Version table:
   *** 5.14-3 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Expected:

  Watchdog daemon starts on system boot.

  Current:

  After updating from Utopic to Vivid the watchdog daemon doesn't start. A manual service watchdog start after boot up starts the daemon normally.
  There seems to be a problem with the transition of the init scripts from Upstart to SystemD.

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