moby: Regression error with docker 1.0.1

Here is the simplest possible Dockerfile to reproduce the issue - a simple tomcat service

FROM ubuntu:14.04

RUN apt-get -q -y update
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -q -y install tomcat6

RUN service tomcat6 start

This fails at the last step, because the service fails to start. However, tomcat does in fact run. If we start a container such as this (starting tomcat6 as entrypoint), and inspect the running processes, we can see that tomcat is indeed up and running. Exposing the tomcat port would show us that tomcat is alive and well, and fully useable. The system thinks the service failed to start, for reasons unknown to me. This is a big problem since we need to be able to rely on service working properly.

This problem appeared in docker 1.0.1, and this same Dockerfile worked perfectly in docker 0.8. Unfortunately I cannot tell which is the last docker version where this did work.

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Here is other relevant info:

$docker version
Client version: 1.0.1
Client API version: 1.12
Go version (client): go1.2.1
Git commit (client): 990021a
Server version: 1.0.1
Server API version: 1.12
Go version (server): go1.2.1
Git commit (server): 990021a

$docker -D info
Containers: 7
Images: 81
Storage Driver: aufs
 Root Dir: /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/aufs
 Dirs: 95
Execution Driver: native-0.2
Kernel Version: 3.14.1-tinycore64
Debug mode (server): true
Debug mode (client): true
Fds: 11
Goroutines: 10
EventsListeners: 0
Init Path: /usr/local/bin/docker

$uname -a
Linux boot2docker 3.14.1-tinycore64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 2 04:19:19 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Although I’ve reproduced the same problem on:

$uname -a
Linux peach 3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.5-1~bpo70+1 (2014-06-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux