Remove avahi-daemon from runlevels 0-6
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| avahi (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
avahi-daemon is currently stopped in runlevels 0 and 6. Is this necessary? It doesn't seem to do anything much of note on SIGTERM; as far as I can see it doesn't need to write out any persistent state to disk or anything like that. We established a while back in Ubuntu that only services which need careful shutdown procedures need to have their init scripts run in runlevels 0 or 6, while everything else should be handled by the SIGTERM/
If my assessment is accurate, then please adjust avahi-daemon's update-rc.d invocation to remove it from runlevels 0 and 6. Note that you'll need explicit migration code in the postinst to remove the old rc[06].d symlinks on upgrade, e.g.:
# Remove shutdown and reboot links; this init script does not need them.
if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt WHATEVER_
rm -f /etc/rc0.
fi
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in avahi: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| summary: |
- unnecessarily stopped in runlevels 0/6? + Remove avahi-daemon from runlevels 0-6 |
| Changed in avahi (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de) wrote | #3 |
(While I agree that this is a minor point, fixing this consistently across the board makes a difference to shutdown speed. See https:/