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Description of problem: When I installed spice-usb-share I could not get usb share to work. I discovered that the spiceusbsrvd service was not running. Once I started it everything worked. On further inspection chkconfig adds the service and defaults to on. It should just start the service. Otherwise it requires a reboot or a manual start. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): spice-usb-share-4.9-9.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: every install Steps to Reproduce: 1.install spice-usb-share 2.try to use usb share 3.notice service state Actual results: not started Expected results: started on install Additional info:
Packaging guidelines explicitly tells packagers not to start services upon package installation. From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript#InitscriptScriptlets: Why don't we ... * start the service after installation? Installations can be in changeroots, in an installer context, or in other situations where you don't want the services started.
How is the user supposed to know that he needs to start the service? I think this is bad choice in the guidelines as it does not satisfy the basic need of package: to deliver the software to the user so that he can use it. Is there any mechanism to notify the user to start the service? I will figure out where I should file an RFE to resolve the usability issues of this particular guideline.
My preference is to autostart the service. But given the fact that the use case we're servicing here is VDI and that's template driven i don't think we're going to suffer here.