[Bug 1176020] Re: initctl status autofs gets stuck on stop/starting

[Bryan Quigley]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to
look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Upstart is no longer in modern Ubuntu releases in this capacity, so new
development for Upstart/it's ecosystem will occur.

If you still have this issue on 16.04/18.04 please find/report a new bug
as it's not Upstart related.

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Title:
  initctl status autofs gets stuck on stop/starting

Status in autofs package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  We have an issue with Upstart not restarting the autofs job when the
  automount process dies, and the Upstart job status gets stuck in the
  "stop/starting" state. The process is not automatically restarted by
  Upstart like it is supposed to. Trying to manually control the job
  fails too:

  root at www1:~# initctl status autofs
  autofs stop/starting
  root at www1:~# initctl stop autofs
  initctl: Job has already been stopped: autofs
  root at www1:~# initctl start autofs
  ^C  <-- hangs
  root at www1:~# initctl restart autofs
  ^C  <-- hangs

  Starting the automount process manually works just fine, but Upstart
  still does not recognize that the job is running.

  I've tried initctl reload-configuration but that didn't change
  anything.

  Rebooting has fixed the problem in the past, but is not a permanent
  solution since this is a production web server and we've seen this
  problem pop up a few times - often months apart from each other. We
  need to track down the problem and find a fix for it.

  I tried posting at http://askubuntu.com/questions/289103/initctl-
  status-autofs-is-stuck-on-stop-starting before reporting a bug but I
  received no suggestions.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: upstart 1.5-0ubuntu7.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-virtual 3.2.40
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-virtual x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri May  3 08:55:16 2013
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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