[Bug 1448924] Re: watchdogd doesn't start on boot

[Ryan Harper]

I've uploaded a version of watchdog with this debdiff attached to my
ppa:

ppa:raharper/bugfixes

Please give a go and see if that resolves the starting on boot issue.

I've verified this fix myself under QEMU with a Xenial cloud image:

 
# create some user-data for easy login
% cat user-data 
#cloud-config
password: passw0rd
chpasswd: { expire: False }
ssh_pwauth: True

# create a local-datasource
% cloud-localds -m local seed.img user-data

# launch the cloud-image under snapshot with the seed and watchdog device
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 2 \
    -drive file=xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img,snapshot=on,format=qcow2,id=boot \
    -watchdog i6300esb -watchdog-action reset \
    -net user -net nic,model=virtio -nographic \
    -cdrom seed.img \
    -redir tcp:2222::22 \
    -serial stdio

# ssh into the guest after boot
1. ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -p 2222 ubuntu at localhost

# install watchdog kernel module (not in cloud image by default)
2. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic

# load watchdog module
3. sudo modprobe i6300esb

# install watchdog service
4. sudo apt-get install watchdog


3. sudo systemctl status watchdog

# observe error from current package
Apr 18 20:32:01 ubuntu systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/watchdog.service:10] Unbalanced quoting, ignoring:

# install new package
4. sudo dpkg --install watchdog_5.14-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb

# tell systemd to install watchdog service
5. systemctl enable watchdog
Synchronizing state of watchdog.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable watchdog

# start it up
# systemctl start watchdog
root at ubuntu:~# echo $?
0
root at ubuntu:~# systemctl status watchdog
● watchdog.service - watchdog daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/watchdog.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-04-18 20:33:14 UTC; 6s ago
  Process: 10518 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c [ $run_watchdog != 1 ] || exec /usr/sbin/watchdog $watchdog_options 
  Process: 10515 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ -z "${watchdog_module}" ] || [ "${watchdog_module}" = "none" ] 
 Main PID: 10521 (watchdog)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 512)
   Memory: 356.0K
      CPU: 5ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/watchdog.service
           └─10521 /usr/sbin/watchdog

Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting watchdog daemon...
Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu watchdog[10521]: starting daemon (5.14):
Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu watchdog[10521]: int=1s realtime=yes sync=no soft=no mla=0 mem=0
Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu watchdog[10521]: ping: no machine to check
Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu watchdog[10521]: file: no file to check
Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu watchdog[10521]: pidfile: no server process to check
Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu watchdog[10521]: interface: no interface to check
Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu watchdog[10521]: temperature: no sensors to check
Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu watchdog[10521]: test=none(0) repair=none(0) alive=none heartbeat=none to=root no_a
Apr 18 20:33:14 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started watchdog daemon.

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Title:
  watchdogd doesn't start on boot

Status in watchdog package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Description:	Ubuntu 15.04
  Release:	15.04

  watchdog:
    Installed: 5.14-3
    Candidate: 5.14-3
    Version table:
   *** 5.14-3 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Expected:

  Watchdog daemon starts on system boot.

  Current:

  After updating from Utopic to Vivid the watchdog daemon doesn't start. A manual service watchdog start after boot up starts the daemon normally.
  There seems to be a problem with the transition of the init scripts from Upstart to SystemD.

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