[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#595054: request-tracker3.8: Race condition between RT3.8+apache2 and MySQL when booting by insserv

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:23:25PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Not quite sure what you are hoping for, but insserv and sysv-rc with
> startpar is using the dependency information included in init.d
> scripts to order the scripts start and shutdown.  Overrides can be
> placed in /etc/insserv/overrides/, but it should really be a last
> resort.
> 
> There is some more info on this in
> <URL: http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot >.

I had seen this wiki page, but I think the thing I missed is that
there is already a system of overriding things. As I understand it,
then, I could include override files in the request-tracker3.8
package which altered the dependencies so that apache2 would always
start after mysql-server and postgresql-server. This may end up
being preferable for the immediate fix, since there won't be an 
easy fix which will apply to upstream.

Petter, many thanks for reading and replying to my long email.

Konstantin, as you already have system running with insserv and
RT, if you are able to play around with this and let me know what's
possible, that'd be great. Otherwise I'll have a look when I have a
spare moment (not sure exactly when that'll be yet).

Best wishes,
Dominic.

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