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Michael Mior
Asked: 2010-01-07 14:02:08 +0800 CST

Services not starting on boot (but will start manually) on Ubuntu 9.10

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After rebooting my machine, I have found many services have stopped starting automatically. If I start them with their init scripts once the machine is booted, they start without any problems. Strangely enough, if I run sudo init 5 once logged in, most services will start (although some still seem to refuse without manually running their init scripts.

I can't think of anything that's changed since I last rebooted my machine and system logs don't seem to show anything useful. Any help is always appreciated!

Update: I have verified both by using chkconfig and examining scripts in /etc/rc*.d folders that the services are configured to start and that the scripts run correctly.

ubuntu ubuntu-9.10

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is a confirmed bug of 9.10. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/497299

    I changed the line 9 of /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf from "start on (filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo)" to "start on filesystem and net-device-up". It's worked for me.

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  2. Have you verified the services are activated for your default runlevel? You can get your current runlevel with runlevel. You can verify the activated runlevels with chkconfig --list <servicename>.

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  3. How did you add those services? Usually with Ubuntu you add and/remove links to the rc services with the update-rc.d command:

    root@hostname:~# /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
                -n: not really
                -f: force

    I'd try to update the init scripts in question with that command to see if that addresses.

    Now if the services were not added via apt-get and your installed them manually, that's a different story. Which services in question did not start?

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