Bug#807911: bzflag-server: bzfs always launched on boot; RUN_AT_STARTUP setting ignored

[Thorsten Bonow]

Package: bzflag-server
Version: 2.4.2+ds1-6+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

it is not possible to start a bzfs server from within BZFlag because
there is one already running, launched during startup. Default setting
'RUN_AT_STARTUP="no"' in '/etc/default/bzflag' is ignored.

Manually stopping the server solves the problem. The systemd service
file has 'EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/bzflag line, so the default
settings should be honoured.

Thx for packaging my favourite game.

Toto


$ ps aux | grep bzfs | grep -v grep
games     1100  0.0  0.2  88656  8668 ?        Ss   13:04   0:00 /usr/games/bzfs -advertise NONE


$ service bzflag status
● bzflag.service - BZFlag game server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bzflag.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2015-12-14 13:04:12 CET; 5min ago
     Docs: man:bzfs(6)
 Main PID: 1100 (bzfs)
   CGroup: /system.slice/bzflag.service
           └─1100 /usr/games/bzfs -advertise NONE

Dec 14 13:04:12 talkietoaster systemd[1]: Started BZFlag game server.
Dec 14 13:04:12 talkietoaster bzfs[1100]: Note: no acceleration limit has been set.  Players using "mouse
Dec 14 13:04:12 talkietoaster bzfs[1100]: enhancements" may cause problems on this server due to very high
Dec 14 13:04:12 talkietoaster bzfs[1100]: acceleration rates which are not handled well by dead reckoning
Dec 14 13:04:12 talkietoaster bzfs[1100]: algorithms.  To eliminate this warning, set the -a switch in your
Dec 14 13:04:12 talkietoaster bzfs[1100]: configuration.  '-a 50 38' is recommended for standard-speed servers.
Dec 14 13:04:12 talkietoaster bzfs[1100]: Higher speed servers will need higher values for -a in order to not
Dec 14 13:04:12 talkietoaster bzfs[1100]: affect gameplay.  '-a 0 0' may be used to shut this message up without
Dec 14 13:04:12 talkietoaster bzfs[1100]: affecting any players, including those using "mouse enhancements".


$ cat /etc/default/bzflag
# RUN_AT_STARTUP
# "yes|true|enabled", /etc/init.d/bzflag will start bzfs.
# Any other value, /etc/init.d/bzflag will exit silently.
#
RUN_AT_STARTUP="no"

# OPTIONS
# Command line options to pass to bzfs. See bzfs(6) for more details.
#
OPTIONS="-advertise NONE"


$ cat /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/bzflag.service
[Unit]
Description=BZFlag game server
Documentation=man:bzfs(6)
After=network.target

[Service]
Environment="OPTIONS=-advertise NONE"
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/bzflag
User=games
Group=games
ExecStart=/usr/games/bzfs $OPTIONS

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages bzflag-server depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.24
ii  libc-ares2           1.10.0-2
ii  libc6                2.21-4
ii  libcurl3-gnutls      7.45.0-1+b1
ii  libgcc1              1:5.3.1-3
ii  libncurses5          6.0+20151024-2
ii  libstdc++6           5.3.1-3
ii  libtinfo5            6.0+20151024-2
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

bzflag-server recommends no packages.

bzflag-server suggests no packages.

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