User controller service creation blocked forever (Debian Stretch 9.0)

[fancyweb]

Cookbook version

3.0.5

Chef-client version

13.1.31

Platform Details

Debian Stretch 9.0

Scenario:

Create an user controlled service

Steps to Reproduce:

This is how I was using the recipe before upgrading to the new Debian :

include_recipe 'runit'

runit_service "es-core-visible" do
  owner "vagrant"
  group "vagrant"
  log false
end

Expected Result:

The user controlled service gets created

Actual Result:

The installations hangs on forever with this line : "ruby_block[wait for es-core-visible service socket] action run" because runit never starts.

Fix and explanation

I'm copying the changelog from runit 2.1.2-4 which was installed :

Runit no longer provides /sbin/runsvdir-start symbolic link to /etc/runit/2. Everything this package provides now directly refers to /etc/runit/2, including systemd's service file, but scripts and configuration outside may be need updated.

To make it work I did this in my own recipe :

node.default['runit']['start'] = '/etc/runit/2'

[fancyweb]

Ok actually to make it work correctly on first provision I had to do :

include_recipe 'runit'
execute 'runsvdir-start' do
  command '/etc/runit/2 &'
end

Because even if I change the "start" attribute or if I manually do the symbolic link, it gets stuck because it is never launched.

[tas50]

I fixed this on master. Thanks for the report