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DAEMON_ARGS in /etc/init.d/salt-minion prevents salt-minion startup

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#543: DAEMON_ARGS in /etc/init.d/salt-minion prevents salt-minion startup

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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Subject: Closed in Debian #1030345

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:09:35 +0100

Package removed from Debian.

Closing.

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From: Samuli Airaksinen <devuan@airasa.fi>

To: submit@bugs.devuan.org

Subject: DAEMON_ARGS in /etc/init.d/salt-minion prevents salt-minion startup

Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 18:27:14 +0200

Package: salt-minion
Version: 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u2

In /etc/init.d/salt-minion , the line

DAEMON_ARGS="-d"

causes the minion to freeze upon startup. The -d switch, which runs the 
minion in the background, is ok when /usr/bin/salt-minion is ran 
interactively, but causes the minion to freeze when launched via service.

The switch is also warned against at 
https://ansible-cn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/troubleshooting/minion.html 
. In Debian Buster the salt-minion service is also launched without the 
-d argument.

There is no error message. The last log message in log_levels "trace" 
and "garbage" is: "Getting lsb_release distro information", after which 
the minion remains unresponsive.

Emptying the DAEMON_ARGS fixes the problem and enables salt-minion to 
start properly.


Proposed patch:

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 DESC="salt minion control daemon"
 NAME=salt-minion
 DAEMON=/usr/bin/salt-minion
-DAEMON_ARGS="-d"
+DAEMON_ARGS=""
 PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
 SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

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