Chef: Upstart provider only supports the start and stop states

[RyanJarv]

Description

The regex to check for states in the Upstart provider only looks for start and stop.

https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/9d09f9e23db45eaf71bc9421507a25fccac1293b/lib/chef/provider/service/upstart.rb#L36

If the service is in any other state it will raise the following error:

    NoMethodError
    -------------
    undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

at

https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/9d09f9e23db45eaf71bc9421507a25fccac1293b/lib/chef/provider/service/upstart.rb#L253

Chef Version

chef-client: 12.15.19

Platform Version

Ubuntu 14.04

Replication Case

https://github.com/RyanJarv/chef_upstart_bug

[RyanJarv]

I don't know a whole lot about upstart and not sure how often this is actually an issue, thinking it may be ok just to document it and raise an error with a better description.

[navkumar2245]

can i work on this issue if it is not fixed yet?

[tas50]

@navkumar2245 You're more than welcome to work on this issue. Since Ubuntu 14.04 is just about EOL at this point this won't be something we'll tackle internally at Chef.

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