BUG "status" script hangs shutdown on ubuntu

[Philipp]

I installed Incredible PBX 11.13.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS and when I run

service --status-all

or

reboot

or

shutdown -r

the script in

/usr/local/sbin/status

causes the command to hang because the "dialog" message box is running.
It seems like this is connected to console-setup but I'm not sure yet how. I do know that

service console-setup status

calls

/usr/local/sbin/status

Because of this problem, I cannot reboot my machine without forcing it. I'm also not sure why the status command (local/sbin) has to run when the console-setup command (or upstart service) is called. It seems to me like this an unlucky choice to make the console show something on startup?

 

[wardmundy]

Looks like there are multiple status apps. We'll take a look. Try renaming /usr/local/sbin/status to i-status and see if that resolves the problem. You'll also have to rename it in /root/.profile.

halt and reboot have been reworked (long ago) to resolve this issue. Use them exclusively, and you won't have a problem.

 

[Philipp]

Thanks for the reply. Ah, I see now, I just couldn't figure out why it calls said status binary.

I ran some other install (apt-get install-)scripts (updated samba and other things because a memory leak) and every time they tried to restart services or query the status of some services it would hang (dialog running in the background, waiting for a enter keypress) and then fail because of that.

Now I'm thinking it could actually be some faulty upstart scripts causing it: "service samba status" says "* nmbd is running, * smbd is running", but "service console-setup status" calls the status binary. So I suppose service console-setup rm -rf / would kill my box..
Do I understand correctly that pbxiaf changes the reboot binaries?

 

[wardmundy]

We don't change the binaries. We just put our halt and reboot scripts in a directory (/usr/local/sbin) that gets searched before the directory with the binaries.