[Bug 138955] Re: (gutsy) package installation doesn't honour service settings

[Pedro Villavicencio]

Thanks for the report Roger Binns , It has been a long time without any
comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the
bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest
Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective
comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at
http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your
help.

** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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Title:
  (gutsy) package installation doesn't honour service settings

Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I have the samba (folder sharing) service installed on my machine, but
  have it turned off in System > Administration > Services.  (I only
  want it on in rare controlled occassions).

  I just did an update which caused pam to be updated which decided to
  restart all services using pam and in the process it restarted samba.
  However samba was not running at the time, nor is it enabled in the
  gui tool or in any /etc/rc?.d directory.

  Package installation should really be obeying the service settings
  rather than just blindly restarting everything potentially affected.
  Additionally it should look to see if the service is already running.
  If it isn't then there is no need to restart it!

  This affects pam upgrades and likely other packages as well.
  Additionally it is a minor security problem because the administrator
  can have deliberately disabled services yet they can still end up
  running.

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