The above instructions worked for me on Jaunty (9.04) Server, the daemon dependency was picked up correctly.

There's a bug in the 1.322 and 1.323 releases of Hudson though that stops the hudson service starting up correctly. See https://hudson.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4304 (need to edit /etc/init.d/hudson and apply a fix as mentioned in the comments of that bug report).

On Jaunty (9.04) Server, the daemon dependency is picked up correctly.

But Hudson doesn't start. Changing hudson user's shell to /bin/bash instead of /bin/false in /etc/passwd seems to fix it.

My case:

I work on a Debian Lenny dist (stable)

I have updated the sources list following the instructions above and have applied the patch attached to the bug

Then, I have had to install the sun-java6-bin package to get working. In my experience the hudson does not start with the debian gnu java. I obtained an exception related to this message:

" Could not instantiate converter : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter : null"

Of course, I have changed the symbolic link at /usr/bin/java by one which links directly to the java from sun.

Cheers.

This fix worked for me when installing Hudson on Debian Lenny: "After installing the hudson deb on Ubuntu server Jaunty 8.10 [Debian Lenny in my case], when I tried to run the init script /etc/init.d/hudson start, nothing would be printed and the server would not start. No log file was created under /var/log/hudson and no pid file was created under /var/run/hudson. I eventually discovered that if i set the hudson user's shell to /bin/bash instead of /bin/false in /etc/passwd everything works fine. Hope this saves someone else some trouble."

Also, this is a good resource: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2008/06/11/debian-packages-hudson