enable => true failure

[grantunwin]

When manifest reads enable => true on ubuntu 14.04. Thows the following error:

change from false to true failed: Execution of '/usr/sbin/update-rc.d squid3 defaults' returned 1: update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/squid3: file does not exist

[flyinprogrammer]

ubuntu uses upstart, so you want this, only not because it breaks rhel support, so i suck. the better fix would be to parameterize 'provider'

service { 'squid3_service':
name => $service_name,
ensure => 'running',
provider => 'upstart',
hasrestart => 'true',
hasstatus => 'true',
require => Package['squid3_package'],
}

[bhechinger]

I tried that, but it still gives the same error. I've opened a support ticket with Puppetlabs to see if I can't get any clarification as to why this is even an issue in the first place. Puppet should be able to determine that i's upstart and do the right thing. I would hope.

[Vincent--]

As a workaround, you can try that :

# Create a symlink to /etc/init/*.conf in /etc/init.d, because Puppet looks there incorrectly
file { '/etc/init.d/squid3':
    ensure => link,
    target => '/lib/init/upstart-job',
}
->
class { '::squid3':
....

See http://nodesforbreakfast.com/article/2012/07/25/puppet-27-upstart-services-ubuntu

[thias]

This sort of sucks, but it's definitely not a problem specific to my module :-(