[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#818961: heartbeat: v1 config style not compatible with systemd

[Patrick Matthäi]

Package: heartbeat
Version: 1:3.0.5+hg12629-1.2
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

Hello,

as previous reported on IRC the v1 config style does not work with systemd as
init system. Failovers are broken, because of the event based systemd, instead
of LSB ordering for services. I also tried out the 1:3.0.6-2 version, without
any luck.

Upstream also states (have not got the link now) that it is unsupported, since
v1 style does not get new features.

IMO the package should warn (debconf dialog prio high?) the user if he upgrades
heartbeat and systemd+v1 config is in use.

Why severity grave?
On setting up some test VMs I noticed that it looks like the cluster is working,
but on intensive testing (just some failovers or using /usr/share/heartbeat/
scripts) everything broke again and again. For productive setups this will fail
in a bigger downtime and the user could not identify the real problem (missing
support) from the logs, except of some coredumps and never taking over clients.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)