Upstart Loses Track of Services ("Unknown instance")

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:44:02PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> I've finally gotten to the bottom of this. It's `telinit u` that
> triggers these problems.

Ah yes; that's a known bug in upstart, as you've found.

> The benefit provided by prelink is probably minimal. I can work around
> this by simply not doing prelinking any more. Is that the best (easy,
> short-term) fix here?

To the best of my knowledge, the only benefit provided by prelinking is to
improve the *startup time* of an application.  Therefore, restarting a
service after prelinking produces negative benefit.

So you should consider this a long-term fix as well. :)

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