I have aborted the deployment of a new zuul merger on scandium (T95046) because puppet refuses to start services that are maintained as sysv init scripts. On the server, we applied `role::zuul::merger` which defines two services which are roughly:
`modules/contint/manifests/zuul/git-daemon.pp`
```
lang=ruby
package { 'git-daemon-sysvinit': ensure => present }
service { 'git-daemon':
ensure => running,
enable => true,
hasrestart => true,
}
```
`modules/zuul/manifests/merger.pp`
```
lang=ruby
package { 'zuul': ensure => present } # does not provide any systemd file
service { 'zuul-merger':
name => 'zuul-merger',
enable => true,
hasrestart => true,
}
```
-----
I originally though that both git-daemon and zuul-merger had the same issue. Retrying, it works just fine for git-daemon:
Giving it a try on scandium with `git-daemon` being stopped:
```
/etc/init.d/git-daemon status
● git-daemon.service - LSB: git-daemon service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/git-daemon)
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2015-11-17 16:19:59 UTC; 12s ago
Process: 23387 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/git-daemon stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 22529 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/git-daemon start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Nov 17 16:05:13 scandium git-daemon[22534]: Ready to rumble
```
```
# puppet agent -tv
Notice: /Stage[main]/Contint::Zuul::Git-daemon/Service[git-daemon]/ensure: ensure changed 'stopped' to 'running'
```
But for the `zuul-merger` service:
```
$ /etc/init.d/zuul-merger status
● zuul-merger.service - LSB: Zuul Merger
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/zuul-merger)
Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2015-11-17 16:24:15 UTC; 2s ago
Process: 28430 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/zuul-merger stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 21006 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/zuul-merger start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
```
```
# puppet agent -tv
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Info: Caching catalog for scandium.eqiad.wmnet
Info: Applying configuration version '1447777197'
Notice: Finished catalog run in 10.43 seconds
```
The service is not started :-(