Ticket #4762 enhancement new
Opened 3 years ago
give me a good error message and exit without daemonizing when an IService can't start up
| Reported by: | glyph | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | core | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Branch: | ||
| Author: | Launchpad Bug: |
Description
The canonical use-case is a port which cannot be bound.
Right now, there is some accidental behavior where, sometimes, you'll get a traceback on stderr before twistd starts up, but other times it will just daemonize and then exit (or just log a traceback and not exit). In no case does the user get a simple, helpful error message telling them what they need to change in order to get things to start up properly.
IService / MultiService / twistd should collaborate to provide a defined behavior for services who can't start up, and allow them to report errors and gracefully exit, possibly tearing down other services which were started first.
Related:
- #4731 had to deal with this issue a bit. The "new, good" API will just log a traceback, and not actually exit. It's not clear that this is an improvement, but it is at least more consistent.
- A really good solution here may involve fixing #718 as a prerequisite, as twistd should really have a non-zero exit status when it can't actually start up.
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