{"id":957,"date":"2014-03-04T21:05:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=957"},"modified":"2014-03-04T21:05:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:05:15","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"progress…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case I run into this again… fired up a VM with ubuntu 13.10, 64 bit… and after installing sshd (apt-get install openssh-server) it wouldn’t start; instead I’d get:<\/p>\n

# services ssh start<\/span>
\nstart: Unknown job: ssh<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

I didn’t see any answers out there, so I waded into the \/etc\/init.d\/ssh script… it calls the “init_is_upstart” function here:<\/p>\n

check_for_upstart(<\/span>)<\/span> {<\/span>
\nif<\/span> init_is_upstart; then<\/span>
\n    exit<\/span> $1<\/span>
\nfi<\/span>
\n}<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

The ssh script sources \/lib\/lsb\/init-functions, which has the offending function down here:<\/p>\n

# If the currently running init daemon is upstart, return zero; if the<\/span>
\n# calling init script belongs to a package which also provides a native<\/span>
\n# upstart job, it should generally exit non-zero in this case.<\/span>
\ninit_is_upstart(<\/span>)<\/span>
\n{<\/span>
\nif<\/span> [<\/span> -x<\/span> \/<\/span>sbin\/<\/span>initctl ]<\/span> &&<\/span> \/<\/span>sbin\/<\/span>initctl version 2<\/span>>\/<\/span>dev\/<\/span>null |<\/span> \/<\/span>bin\/<\/span>grep<\/span> -q<\/span> upstart; then<\/span>
\n    return<\/span> 0<\/span>
\nfi<\/span>
\nreturn<\/span> 1<\/span>
\n}<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

I’ve no idea what upstart is, presumably some way of “improving” things… but changing the retcodes had no effect; commenting out the check altogether made sshd run again, thank goodness; just end the misery by changing the ssh script to ignore this check:<\/p>\n

check_for_upstart(<\/span>)<\/span> {<\/span>
\nreturn<\/span>   # don't do anything else, just return<\/span>
\nif<\/span> init_is_upstart; then<\/span>
\n    exit<\/span> $1<\/span>
\nfi<\/span>
\n}<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

Now at least ssh will stop and start, and I can forget about the madness for a bit longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case I run into this again… fired up a VM with ubuntu 13.10, 64 bit… and after installing sshd (apt-get install openssh-server) it wouldn’t start; instead I’d get: # services ssh start start: Unknown job: ssh I didn’t see any answers out there, so I waded into the \/etc\/init.d\/ssh script… it calls the “init_is_upstart” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,33],"tags":[257,258,259],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-dinosaur","tag-bah","tag-kids","tag-stupid-linux-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}