[Pkg-ganeti-devel] Bug#736065: ganeti: unwanted automatic restart

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos]

Hi Benoit,

On 13:21 Sun 19 Jan     , Benoit Friry wrote:
> Package: ganeti
> Version: 2.9.2-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Bonjour,
> 
> I use ganeti for testing pieces of software. I do not want ganeti to be always
> running.
> 
> # /etc/init.d/ganeti stop
> [ ok ] Stopping Ganeti cluster:[....] ganeti-mond...done.
> [ ok ] ganeti-luxid...done.
> [ ok ] ganeti-confd...done.
> [ ok ] ganeti-rapi...done.
> [ ok ] ganeti-masterd...done.
> [ ok ] ganeti-noded...done.
> 
> After a while, ganeti is running again.
> 
> # /etc/init.d/ganeti status
> [ ok ] ganeti-noded is running.
> [ ok ] ganeti-masterd is running.
> [ ok ] ganeti-rapi is running.
> [ ok ] ganeti-confd is running.
> [FAIL] ganeti-luxid is not running ... failed!
> [ ok ] ganeti-mond is running.
> 
> ganeti was restarted by ganeti-watcher in /etc/cron.d/ganeti.
> 
> Actually, ganeti cannot be stopped!
> 
> ganeti-watcher can be paused with "gnt-cluster watcher pause <duration>", which
> assume the watch has to be restarted.  So, it's not the right way.
> 
> Suggestion:
>  - /etc/init.d/ganeti start => create a flag file in /var/lib/ganeti
>  - /etc/init.d/ganeti stop => remove the flag file
>  - /etc/cron.d/ganeti => do not do anything if the flag file in not there.
> 
> Merci,
> Benoit

We will into this more thoroughly. Meanwhile, you can disable the 
watcher permanently through /etc/cron.d/ganeti.

Regards,
Apollon
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages ganeti depends on:
> ii  adduser            3.113+nmu3
> ii  bridge-utils       1.5-7
> ii  fping              3.8-1
> ii  ganeti-haskell     2.9.2-2
> ii  iproute            1:3.12.0-1
> ii  iproute2           3.12.0-1
> ii  iputils-arping     3:20121221-4
> ii  lvm2               2.02.98-6+b1
> ii  openssh-client     1:6.4p1-2
> ii  openssh-server     1:6.4p1-2
> ii  openssl            1.0.1f-1
> ii  python-bitarray    0.8.0-2+b2
> ii  python-ipaddr      2.1.10-1
> ii  python-openssl     0.13.1-1
> ii  python-paramiko    1.10.1-1
> ii  python-pycurl      7.19.0.3-1
> ii  python-pyinotify   0.9.4-1
> ii  python-pyparsing   2.0.1+dfsg1-1
> ii  python-simplejson  3.3.1-2
> pn  python:any         <none>
> ii  socat              1.7.2.2-1
> 
> Versions of packages ganeti recommends:
> pn  drbd8-utils                  <none>
> pn  ganeti-htools                <none>
> ii  ganeti-instance-debootstrap  0.11-1
> ii  ndisc6                       1.0.1-1+b1
> ii  qemu-kvm                     1.7.0+dfsg-2
> 
> Versions of packages ganeti suggests:
> pn  ganeti-doc  <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information
>