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Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Thu Nov 29 20:57:05 GMT 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 21:32 +0100, Mildred wrote:

> Le Mon 26/11/2007 à 23:43 Scott James Remnant à écrit:
> > Upstart, in the extraordinarily unlikely circumstance that it might
> > crash (0.3.8 hasn't had a single report of one in the 1 year+ it's
> > been out), simply forks and dumps core in the child -- thus
> > generating a useful core file.  Ubuntu's apport hook will catch this
> > and ask the user if they'd like to file a bug report.
> 
> Well, once I found a bug but never reported it since it was more my
> fault than upstart's. In fact I made upstart enter an infinite loop,
> thus eating 100% of my CPU. No other choice to restart.
> 
> It was in fact a service that contained:
> 
> 	start on starting
> 	start on started
> 	start on stopping
> 	start on stopped
> 
> The purpose of this service was to print on the console little
> information about what was going on. But This service starting would
> make itself start again ... indefinitely.
> 
> Perhaps it could be useful to detect such cases.
> 
This should already be detected and kit the respawn limit.

What was the exact service?  What version of Upstart?

Scott
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