I've noticed that during wheezy->jessie upgrades, the gmond restarts are not working correctly
I looked at a machine with this problem today and observed that: - during the dist-upgrade process and up to the point when I rebooted, the invoke-rc.d command could not start the gmond process # invoke-rc.d ganglia-monitor start ; echo $? Starting Ganglia Monitor Daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript ganglia-monitor, action "start" failed. 1 - during that same period of time, I could use the init script directly to start and stop and restart: # /etc/init.d/ganglia-monitor start Starting Ganglia Monitor Daemon: gmond # ps ax | grep gmond 5817 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/sbin/gmond --pid-file /var/run/gmond.pid - after a reboot, the invoke-rc.d command was working normally too As I use invoke-rc.d from the postinst scripts in ganglia-monitor[1] and ganglia-modules-linux[2], I'm keen to resolve this, otherwise people see something like the errors below. Do I need to ensure other things are (re)started for systemd to be in a friendly state before my own postinst scripts do things? Should I suppress the errors in my postinst scripts so that dist-upgrade appears to finish cleanly? Regards, Daniel Setting up ganglia-monitor (3.6.0-6) ... Starting Ganglia Monitor Daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript ganglia-monitor, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package ganglia-monitor (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ganglia-modules-linux: ganglia-modules-linux depends on ganglia-monitor; however: Package ganglia-monitor is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package ganglia-modules-linux (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured ... Errors were encountered while processing: ganglia-monitor ganglia-modules-linux E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 1. http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-monitoring/ganglia.git/tree/debian/ganglia-monitor.postinst 2. https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-monitoring/ganglia-modules-linux.git/tree/debian/postinst
