Upstart service manager doesn't work

[noplanman]

I'm using your great docker testing setup for some Ansible roles, but am having issues with this Ubuntu 12.04 image.
Upstart doesn't work, because the image has an outdated initctl.

See here for deeper explanation and a possible solution:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/28596795

[bdellegrazie]

@geerlingguy any chance of adding:

RUN rm -f /sbin/initctl && dpkg-divert --local --rename --remove /sbin/initctl

as you do in the 14.04 docker image you maintain?
That should solve this problem as well.

[geerlingguy]

Sorry, I'm basically in minimal maintenance mode on this image... but if someone can file a PR and get it working better I may be willing to accept it so a new version with the fix is on Docker Hub!

[geerlingguy]

Thanks for the PR! I'm looking back at my Ubuntu 14.04 project now (https://github.com/geerlingguy/docker-ubuntu1404-ansible/blob/master/Dockerfile#L24), and forgetting a little about why I needed that 'hack'; it looks fine to me, but is there any chance this could break things for anyone not using Upstart with Ubuntu 12.04?

[bdellegrazie]

Hi, the only side-effect is an unused upstart process but since this is designed for testing, that should be an acceptable compromise.

I originally did this to make the container work with test-kitchen over ssh (before docker-cli was available) but abandoned that in favour of your simpler (and faster) approach.