Debian package installation

Naveen Gupta

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Apr 27, 2017, 3:33:57 AM4/27/17

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Hi,

I created a debian package for my play 2.5.X application using commands at https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.5.x/Deploying#Minimal-Debian-settings. I have successfull created the .deb file.

When installing on server I get following error

Preparing to unpack siteman.deb ...

Unpacking medharbour-siteman (1.0.0) ...

Setting up medharbour-siteman (1.0.0) ...

Creating system group: medharbour-siteman

Creating system user: medharbour-siteman in medharbour-siteman with medharbour-siteman user-daemon and shell /bin/false

/var/lib/dpkg/info/medharbour-siteman.postinst: 9: /var/lib/dpkg/info/medharbour-siteman.postinst: initctl: not found

Failed to start medharbour-siteman.service: Unit medharbour-siteman.service not found.

medharbour-siteman could not be registered or started

Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...

The application doesnt starts as expected.

Am I missing something when building the debian package ?

Will Sargent

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Apr 27, 2017, 8:32:22 PM4/27/17

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That's probably something in your script -- the debian distribution is actually generated from sbt-native-packager:

http://www.scala-sbt.org/sbt-native-packager/archetypes/systemloaders.html?highlight=initctl#customize-start-script

so you can more information on that website.

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Teo Klestrup Röijezon

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Apr 28, 2017, 5:02:32 AM4/28/17

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initctl is for controlling Upstart daemons, but both Ubuntu and Debian use systemd these days (and Debian has never used Upstart to begin with).

To make it work, enable the SystemdPlugin, which tells sbt-native-packager to generate systemd units instead.

Teo Klestrup

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Apr 28, 2017, 5:07:23 AM4/28/17

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Oh, and you'll also want to set pidfile.path=/dev/null, since PID
files haven't been relevant since the bad old days of Sysvinit.

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Naveen Gupta

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Apr 28, 2017, 9:55:35 AM4/28/17

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Hi Teo,

Thanks for the headstart. The SystemdPlugin did the trick.

The setting for PID file was already there.

Naveen Gupta

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Apr 29, 2017, 3:22:24 AM4/29/17

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Teo,

Can you guide me how to create different deb files for various environments(beta vs prod). Each of them would have different config files.