irqbalance enabled unconditionally, can't be disabled via debconf

Bug #573657 reported by Jürgen Kreileder
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
irqbalance (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
irqbalance (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Maverick
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: irqbalance

[using 0.55+20091017-3ubuntu2 on lucid]

irqbalance gets enabled unconditionally upon installation. The user's answer to the question whether it should be enabled (upon installation or dpkg-reconfigure) gets ignored:

,---
| $ cat /etc/default/irqbalance
| #Configuration for the irqbalance daemon
|
| #Should irqbalance be enabled?
| ENABLED=1
| #Balance the IRQs only once?
| ONESHOT="0"
| $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -ftext irqbalance
| stop: Unknown instance:
| Configuring irqbalance
| ----------------------
|
| Enable the irqbalance daemon to balance IRQs on SMP systems and systems with
| hyperthreading.
|
| Would you like to enable irqbalance? n
|
|
| irqbalance can run in one shot mode, where the IRQs are balanced only once. This
| is advantageous on hyperthreading systems such as the Pentium 4, which appear to
| be SMP systems, but are really one physical CPU.
|
| Would you like to balance the IRQs once? y
|
|
| irqbalance start/running, process 1496
| $ cat /etc/default/irqbalance
| #Configuration for the irqbalance daemon
|
| #Should irqbalance be enabled?
| ENABLED=1
| #Balance the IRQs only once?
| ONESHOT="1"
`---

=> dpkg-reconfigure managed to change the ONESHOT setting but not the ENABLED setting.

The problem is caused by a confusion over where to use "ENABLED" and where "ENABLE". I'm attaching a trivial patch which fixes the problem.

Revision history for this message
Jürgen Kreileder (jk) wrote :
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Thanks this will be fixed in maverick.

chuck

Changed in irqbalance (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in irqbalance (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
David Futcher (bobbo)
tags: added: patch-forwarded-debian
papukaija (papukaija)
tags: added: lucid maverick patch
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
tags: added: server-mrs
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package irqbalance - 0.56-0ubuntu2

---------------
irqbalance (0.56-0ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/irqbalance.{config,postinst}: Ask the user if they want to
    disable irqbalance or not. (LP: #573657)
 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:01:22 -0400

Changed in irqbalance (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in irqbalance (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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