workaround-upstart-snafu | Work around Upstart getting stuck in “ jobname

workaround-upstart-snafu is a Ruby library. workaround-upstart-snafu has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

When lied to about the behavior of a job’s main process wrt. forking with the “expect” stanza, Upstart can get into a confused state where it’s tracking a nonexistent pid. This hack creates new short-lived processes until one gets the pid in question, then has its parent die so that it’s going to get reaped by pid 1 (Upstart), which will get Upstart out of the confused state. When “status ” says “ stop/killed, process 12345” and there’s no such process, run “workaround-upstart-snafu 12345” and wait until it exits.