upstart-events(7)

NAME
upstart-events - Well-known Upstart events summary

Event Summary
This manual page summarises well-known events generated by Upstart running both as the init(8) daemon (process ID 1) and a Session Init (process that supervises a user session). It is not an exhaustive list of all possible events, but rather details a standard set of events expected to be generated on any Ubuntu system running Upstart. The primary tables, Table 1 and Table 2, encode the well-known system and session events respectively, along with the type of each event (listed in Table 3), the emitter of the event (see Table 4) and the approximate time at which the event could be generated. Additionally, the Note column indexes into Table 5 for further details on a particular event. See init(8) for a table summarising job goals and possible state transitions. Note that some events listed in Table 1 may be available to session jobs (depending on when the Session Init starts). Those events that are available will be prefixed with :sys:. See upstart-event-bridge(8) for further details. The Ref (Reference) column is used to refer to individual events succinctly in the Time column. Note that the '<' and '>' characters in the Time column denote that the event in the Event column occurs respectively before or after the event specified in the Time column (for example, the mounting(7) event occurs "at some time" after the startup(7) event, and the virtual-filesystems(7) event occurs after the last mounted(7) event relating to a virtual filesystem has been emitted). For further details on events, consult the manual pages and the system job configuration files, usually located in /etc/init.

Table 1: Well-Known System Events Summary.
Ref | Event | Type | Emit | Time | Note
 | all-swaps | S | M | > (5) |
 | control-alt-delete(7) | S | A | > (5) | A
 | container | S | C | > /run mounted | Q
 | dbus-activation | S | B | > D-Bus client request |
 | deconfiguring-networking | H | V | < non-local IFs down | P
 | desktop-session-start | H | D | > X(7) session created | B
 | desktop-shutdown | H | D | > X(7) session ended | O
 | device-not-ready | H | M | > (2) | N
 | drm-device-added | S | U | > (5) | C
 | failsafe-boot | S | X | > (7) and local IF | S
 | file | S | K | > (1) | U
7 | filesystem | S | M | After last (1) | D
 | graphics-device-added | S | U | > (5) | C
 | keyboard-request(7) | S | A | > (5) | E
 | local-filesystems(7) | S | M | > (6) |
 | login-session-start | H | D | < DM running | F
1 | mounted(7) | H | M | > associated (2) | G
2 | mounting(7) | H | M | > (5) | H
3 | net-device-added | S | U | > (5) | C
 | net-device-changed | S | U | > (5) | C
 | net-device-down | S | F | < (4) | C
4 | net-device-removed | S | U | > (5) | C
 | net-device-up | S | F,N | > (3) | C
 | not-container | S | C | > /run mounted | Q
 | power-status-changed(7) | S | I | > (5) | I
 | recovery | S | G | Boot (<5) | R
 | remote-filesystems(7) | S | M | > (6) |
 | rotate-logs | H | R | daily | Y
 | runlevel(7) | M | T | > (7) + (8) |
 | socket(7) | S | S | > socket connection | X
5 | startup(7) | S | I | Boot | J
 | started(7) | S | I | > job started | K
 | starting(7) | H | I | < job starts | K
8 | static-network-up | S | N | > last static IF up |
 | stopped(7) | S | I | > job stopped | K
 | stopping(7) | H | I | < job stops | K
 | unmounted-remote-filesystems | H | V | > last remote FS unmounted | L
6 | virtual-filesystems(7) | S | M | > last virtual FS (1) | M

Key:
  'DM' is an abbreviation for Display Manager.
  'FS' is an abbreviation for filesystem.
  'IF' is an abbreviation for Network Interface.

Table 2: Well-Known User Events Summary.
Ref | Event | Type | Emit | Time | Note
 | dbus | S | L | > (1) | W
 | dconf | S | O | > (1) |
 | desktop-end(7) | S | J | < (2) |
 | desktop-start(7) | H | J | > (3) |
 | file | S | K | > (1) | U
2 | session-end(7) | M | I | < Session Init end |
1 | startup(7) | S | I | > Session Init start | J
 | :sys:* | S | E | > upstart-event-bridge(8) start |
 | :sys:restarted | S | E | > upstart-event-bridge(8) start | V
3 | xsession | M | H | > (1) | T

Table 3: Event Types.
Ref | Event Type | Notes
H | Hook | Blocking. Waits for events that start on or stop on this event.
M | Method | Blocking task.
S | Signal | Non-blocking.

Table 4: Event Emitters.
Ref | Emitter | Notes
A | System Administrator (initiator) | Technically emitted by init(8).
B | dbus-daemon(1) | Run with "--activation=upstart"
C | container-detect job |
D | Display Manager | e.g. lightdm/gdm/kdm/xdm.
E | upstart-event-bridge(8) |
F | ifup(8) or ifdown(8) | See /etc/network/.
G | bootloader or initramfs |
H | xsession-init session job |
I | init(8) | Either PID 1 or a Session Init.
J | job that starts desktop | gnome-session job for Ubuntu.
K | upstart-file-bridge(8) | See file-event(7).
L | upstart-dbus-bridge(8) | See dbus-event(7).
M | mountall(8) |
N | network-interface job |
O | upstart-dconf-bridge(8) | See dconf-event(7).
R | /etc/cron.daily/upstart | See cron(8).
S | upstart-socket-bridge(8) | See socket-event(7).
T | telinit(8), shutdown(8) |
U | upstart-udev-bridge(8) |
V | System V init system |
X | failsafe job |

Table 5: Event Summary Notes.
Note | Detail
A | Requires administrator to press Control-Alt-Delete key combination on the console.
B | Event generated when user performs graphical login.
C | These are specific examples. upstart-udev-bridge(8) will emit events which match the pattern, "S-device-A" where 'S' is the udev subsystem and 'A' is the udev action. See udev(7) and for further details. If you have sysfs mounted, you can look in /sys/class/ for possible values for subsystem.
D | Note this is in the singular - there is no 'filesystems' event.
E | Emitted when administrator presses Alt-UpArrow key combination on the console.
F | Denotes Display Manager running (about to be displayed), but no users logged in yet.
G | Generated for each mount that completes successfully.
H | Emitted when mount attempt for single entry from fstab(5) for any filesystem type is about to begin.
I | Emitted when Upstart receives the SIGPWR signal.
J | Initial event (system or Session Init).
K | Although the events are emitted by init(8), the instigator may be initctl(8) if a System Administrator has manually started or stopped a job.
L | /etc/init/umountnfs.sh.
M | Emitted when all virtual filesystems (such as /proc) mounted.
N | Emitted when the --dev-wait-time timeout is exceeded for mountall(8). This defaults to 30 seconds.
O | Emitted when the X(7) display manager exits at shutdown or reboot, to hand off to the shutdown splash manager.
P | Emitted by /etc/init.d/networking just prior to stopping all non-local network interfaces.
Q | Either 'container' or 'not-container' is emitted (depending on the environment), but not both.
R | Emitted by either the initramfs or bootloader (for example grub) as the initial event (rather than startup(7)) to denote the system has booted into recovery mode. If recovery was successful, the standard startup(7) event is then emitted, allowing the system to boot as normal.
S | Emitted to indicate the system has failed to boot within the expected time. This event will trigger other jobs to forcibly attempt to bring the system into a usable state.
T | Only emitted for a graphical session.
U | See file-event(7).
V | This is a pseudo-system event emitted directly by the
W | Emitted by Session Init only since bridge not run as system job by default.
X | See socket-event(7).
Y | Used primary by Session Job /usr/share/upstart/sessions/logrotate.conf.

AUTHOR
Manual page written by James Hunt <james.hunt@ubuntu.com>

REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bugs>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2011-2013 Canonical Ltd.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
all-swaps(7), control-alt-delete(7), dbus-daemon(1), dbus-event(7), dconf-event(7), file-event(7), filesystem(7), ifdown(8) ifup(8) init(5), init(8), initctl(8), keyboard-request(7), local-filesystems(7), mountall(8), mounted(7), mounting(7), power-status-changed(7), remote-filesystems(7), runlevel(7), shutdown(8), socket-event(7), started(7), starting(7), startup(7), stopped(7), stopping(7), telinit(8), upstart-dbus-bridge(8), upstart-dconf-bridge(8), upstart-event-bridge(8), upstart-file-bridge(8), upstart-local-bridge(8), upstart-socket-bridge(8), upstart-udev-bridge(8), virtual-filesystems(7).