hmmm….

I was in need of a means to disable upstart scripts in /etc/event.d via some means other than getting rid of the file. Since upstart has no documentation to speak of, I asked my buddy Google.

Google pointed me to the year old bug 94065 in launchpad. I added a quick ‘me too’ and subscribed to updates on the bug. This was back in March. Fast forward to last week and this arrives:

** Changed in: upstart
      Target: 0.5 => None

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Add non-destructive means to disable a job
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94065
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of the bug.

There is no mention of this change in bug meta-data on the launchpad site, or maybe I’m just not finding it since I lack the doctorate in navigating launchpad necessary to be able to use the site. This prompted an update from the original reporter on the bug asking for more information:

is there a disable method yet? i reported this initially over a year ago. (there may be, but since there’s no upstart manpage on hardy, it’s hard to know. :-)

Now for the asshole fail:

Scott James Remnant wrote on 2008-08-14: (permalink)

Does this bug report say that there is a disable method? Is it marked Fix Released?
No.

I’m not sure what Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>’s roll at Canonical is but perhaps it should be modified to remove any tasks that involve interaction with the public?

Click this link!

[18:54:56] < bhale> mikegrb: they should arrest the googlebot

The drunk driver that landed through a house roof after hitting a curb mentioned here previously was on probation for driving while intoxicated at the time of the accident. She hadn’t been aressted at the time of the accident because the officers on the scene didn’t check the conditions of her parole since killing a man by landing her car on his bed was concidered a nonviolent crime. She is currently being held without bail at the county jail.

See the See the previous Story regarding this accident for further details.

Saw this on last night’s news. Appearantly a drunk driver hit a curb, went airborne, cart wheeled when it hit the ground in the yard and landed standing straight up and down through the roof of a house killing a 22 year old watching TV in bed.

From WEAR-TV’s website:

A family is mourning the loss of a young man after a car landed on the roof of a home in Milton.
Police say, 51 year-old Beverly Grimditch of Navarre was driving erratically near Berryhill Road around ten o’clock Thursday night.
When officers tried to pull her over..she sped off heading south on Alabama Street.
Police say, Grimditch hit a curb and the car became airborne and landed on the roof of a home on Margaret Street.
A man inside the house, 22 year-old William Christoper Villar, was killed.
Grimditch was taken to West Florida Hospital.
She’s in serious condition.
Charges are pending and Milton police say alcohol may have been involved.

More details at the Pensacola News Journal’s Website.