Debian Bug report logs - #489353
failure to start causes failure to install/upgrade

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Package: mpd; Maintainer for mpd is mpd maintainers <pkg-mpd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Source for mpd is src:mpd (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de>

Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version mpd/0.13.2-1

Done: Florian Schlichting <fsfs@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>:
Bug#489353; Package mpd. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: failure to start causes failure to install/upgrade
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:14:42 +0200
Package: mpd
Version: 0.13.2-1

I have my music on an external drive, which isn't always connected. This 
causes mpd to fail on startup ('/etc/init.d/mpd start' gives an error). So 
far, so good, that behaviour is not surprising to me.

However, while upgrading, mpd tries to start, too, which fails and 
subsequently the whole installation fails. There are two things here I 
consider wrong:
1. It shouldn't start. Before the upgrade it wasn't running so it shouldn't 
suddenly run afterwards. Of course, that's a point that can be argued and I 
don't actually care that much.
2. Installation shouldn't fail when starting fails. Failure to (re-)start 
should give a warning, but it should absolutely not cause the whole 
installation to fail.

cheers

Uli




Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org:
Bug#489353; Package mpd. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 489353@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>
To: Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de>, 489353@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#489353: failure to start causes failure to install/upgrade
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:12:55 -0400
Ulrich Eckhardt writes:

> However, while upgrading, mpd tries to start, too, which fails and 
> subsequently the whole installation fails. There are two things here I 
> consider wrong:

This is definitely wrong; I thought I fixed it several releases back, and
it WFM at the time, but it doesn't look right to me now. Should be easy to
fix properly when I have a chance to do more testing.

-- 
things change.
decklin@red-bean.com




Reply sent to Florian Schlichting <fsfs@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Mon, 27 May 2013 22:33:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Mon, 27 May 2013 22:33:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at 489353-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Florian Schlichting <fsfs@debian.org>
To: 489353-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#489353: failure to start causes failure to install/upgrade
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 00:28:36 +0200
when mpd is not enabled, it will not try to start on upgrade (upgrade
triggers the normal startup script, which will heed the setting in
/etc/default/mpd

this was fixed long a ago, but this bug was apparently forgotten, so
closing it now

Florian



Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:36:26 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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