Upstart not working on Ubuntu 14.04: cannot create PID file

[flowma]

This is probably related to #164 .

• Packaged a Play! 2.3.4 app with debian:packageBin. Works great.
• DEB installs great in Ubuntu 14.04
• Service gets started. Serves requests just fine.

Now, when I restart the the target machine, Ubuntu will re-populate /var/run . Then the Play! app tries to create the PID file, but it fails because the directory /var/run/{{app_name}} does not exist (I have -Dpidfile.path=/var/run/${{app_name}}/play.pid in src/templates/etc-default). /var/log/upstart/$app_name.log says

Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/run/$app_name/play.pid (No such file or directory)

Upstart is to be replaced with systemd on Ubuntu, so maybe it's not worth maintaining that code. But 14.04 is going to be around for a while, so it would be nice to have a working default or at least clearly documented workaround.

It work smoothly if I switch to SystemV in build.sbt:

import com.typesafe.sbt.packager.archetypes.ServerLoader.SystemV
maintainer in Linux := "Florian Marienfeld <f.marienfeld@willhoeft-it.com>"

[flowma]

Just noticed 14.04 is not officially supported. In that case, great that it works with the SysV workaround.

[muuki88]

Thanks for doing the researc in the tickets here :)
A similar problem was fixed in #201

I hope to add this to #348