[openstack-dev] [oslo][nova] oslo common.service vs. screen and devstack

Oleg Gelbukh ogelbukh at mirantis.com
Fri Dec 20 08:30:53 UTC 2013


I'd +1 Clint on this. I believe that the only right way to handle SIGHUP
for process running in foreground is to terminate.

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Best regards,
Oleg Gelbukh


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Sean Dague's message of 2013-12-19 16:33:12 -0800:
> > So a few people had been reporting recently that unstack no longer stops
> > nova processes, which I only got around to looking at today. It turns
> > out the new common.service stack from oslo takes SIGHUP and treats it as
> > a restart. Which isn't wrong, but is new, and is incompatible with
> > screen (the way we use it). Because we use -X stuff, the resulting -X
> > quit sends SIGHUP to the child processes.
> >
> > So the question is, are we definitely in a state now where nova services
> > can and do want to support SIGHUP as restart?
> >
> > If so, is there interest in being able to disable that behavior at start
> > time, so we can continue with a screen based approach as well?
> >
> > If not, we'll need to figure out another way to approach the shutdown in
> > devstack. Which is fine, just work that wasn't expected.
> >
>
> Perhaps if the process is running in the foreground, as it does in
> devstack, it should still terminate on SIGHUP rather than restart.
>
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