[Bug 440179] Re: service fails to start/stop/restart networking daemon

[Clint Byrum]

Seems like the 'service' command should be smarter, and map to the
"sysvinit" way in the same way that invoke-rc.d does for packages.
restart is usually expected to start the service if it isn't started,
but by passing directly through to upstart's restart, we are breaking
that assumption, leading to all sorts of problems for people.

** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  service fails to start/stop/restart networking daemon

Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: sysvinit-utils

  The 'service' program (in sysvinit-utils) fails to start, stop, or
  restart a daemon, as follows:

  root at lightning:~# service networking restart
  restart: Unknown instance: 

  It should have the same effect as the following:

  root at lightning:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
   * Reconfiguring network interfaces...

  Ubuntu version and kernel version
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"
  Linux lightning 2.6.31-11-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 25 06:37:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
  model name	: VIA Samuel 2
  cpu MHz		: 798.000

  This system was updated earlier today.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Oct  1 12:28:49 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: sysvinit-utils 2.87dsf-4ubuntu7
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
  SourcePackage: sysvinit
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

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