service <service> restart does not use an updated job configuration

Thomas, I have confirmed this on natty:

upstart:
  Installed: 0.6.7-5
  Candidate: 0.6.7-6
  Version table:
     0.6.7-6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
 *** 0.6.7-5 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I believe this happens because of the way restart happens in a single event which changes the job's goal from stop, to start. At no point is a new job object created, so the newly parsed configuration is not present. This also probably has a lot to do with bug #703800 which causes restart to not work if there is a pre-stop. I imagine they will have the same fix, but are not the same bug.

This is this way by design, it allows for services to be restarted without a change of configuration.

If you want to adopt the new configuration use:

  stop service ; start service

restart -> stop engine, start engine
reload -> reload engine (what ever this means)

To "restart" someting means starting all over.
This is a bug --- at least one about meaning of words.

No, restart means to restart what you already have.

If you restart a game, it means going back to the beginning of the game and
starting it again. It doesn't mean potentially starting a new completely
different game.

Scott

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Thomas Schweikle <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> restart -> stop engine, start engine
> reload -> reload engine (what ever this means)
>
> To "restart" someting means starting all over.
> This is a bug --- at least one about meaning of words.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/707479
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> Title:
> service <service> restart does not use an updated job configuration
>
> Status in Upstart:
> Won't Fix
> Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: upstart
>
> start a system using upstart. "ps axf" gives for one service converted to
> upstart:
> 862 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -d
>
> now change /etc/init/libvirt-bin to exec "/usr/sbin/libvirtd -d" to
> "/usr/sbin/libvirtd -d --listen". Afterwards:
> # service libvirt-bin restart
> libvirt-bin start/running, process 895
> # ps axf | grep libvirtd
> 895 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -d
>
> You'll have to stop, then start libvirt-bin, to have the change made have
> any effect:
> # service libvirt-bin stop
> libvirt-bin stop/waiting
> # service libvirt-bin start
> # service libvirt-bin start
> libvirt-bin start/running, process 928
> # ps axf | grep libvirt
> 928 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -d --listen
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: upstart 0.6.6-3
> Uname: Linux 2.6.36.3 x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Jan 25 16:26:04 2011
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=de_DE.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: upstart
>

I have opened bug #731225 upstream to fix the documentation of restart. Meanwhile we will need to fix anything that uses 'restart' to use 'stop/start' where it may have assumed restart was reloading job configuration. I think the first place to start is the restart stanza of upstart-job, which does run 'start' on the job if its not running (another side effect of the $0 stop ; $0 start convention), but if the job is running, will still not reload the job config file.

> I have opened bug #731225 upstream to fix the documentation of restart.
> Meanwhile we will need to fix anything that uses 'restart' to use 'stop/start'
> where it may have assumed restart was reloading job configuration. I think
> the first place to start is the restart stanza of upstart-job, which does run
> 'start' on the job if its not running (another side effect of the $0 stop ; $0
> start convention), but if the job is running, will still not reload the job
> config file.

/lib/init/upstart-job already does this from natty on:

restart)
[...]
    if status "$JOB" 2>/dev/null | grep -q ' start/'; then
        RUNNING=1
    fi
    if [ -n "$RUNNING" ] ; then
        stop "$JOB"
    fi
    start "$JOB"
    ;;

Marking as fixed.