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update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

Ask Ubuntu Asked by PhoenixBlue on December 2, 2020

I have recently installed snmpd on my Ubuntu 16.04 VM. I was trying out few things and at some point I wanted to restart the application using

service snmpd restart

It did not work, giving the message undefined symbol: smux_listen_sd
I serched the internet for a possible reasons, but the main solution I was given was that there is another installed version that I need to remove. I looked for previous versions, there was nothing.

So after couple of uninstallations and re installations, it now works.

However, at the end of the installation, I noticed the message:

update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
update-rc.d: warning: stop runlevel arguments (1) do not match snmpd Default-Stop values (0 1 6)

Does that mean I can no longer use service ... start or systemctl ... start?
If so, how should I start and stop an app?

One Answer

The "start" and "stop" arguments are deprecated!
Roger Leigh (Debian developer team) announced that in debian-devel, on May 2013:

the options still exist, but they just invoke the "defaults" action.

As you can see in an extract of update-rc.d(8) manpage:

The correct way to disable services is to configure the service as stopped in all runlevels in which it is started by default.

Answered by lunix15 on December 2, 2020

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