On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 22:13:16 +0900
Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack@???> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using Docker's docker-ce package for Debian (stretch) on
> Devuan (ascii) just fine for quite a while. However, last night's
> automated upgrade on two of my Devuan servers left them without a
> running dockerd :-(
>
> A quick `invoke-rc.d docker start` got the daemon back up but I still
> had to restart up some of the containers manually :-(
>
> The same upgrade went without any problems on a Debian server. Looks
> like the Docker folks only cater to systemd setups :-(((
>
> Upgrading from 18.06.1~ce~3-0~debian to 5:18.09.0~3-0~debian-stretch
> also pulls in docker-ce-cli and containerd packages so it could be
> that the issue is with one of these packages only catering to systemd
> setups. If so, I suspect containerd but haven't looked at the pre-
> and postinst scripts yet.
>
> FTR, the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list on all three machines is
>
> deb https://download.docker.com/linux/debian stretch stable edge

This kind of thing is exactly why I started running daemontools on top
of sysvinit. I found that for some things, sysvinit was just to
complicated to easily troubleshoot.

Nobody uses daemontools anymore. They use runit (with the sysvinit
pID1) instead.


SteveT

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