Document Debian 7 Upstart workaround

Jacob Vosmaer
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README.md
@@ -67,6 +67,19 @@ installing omnibus-gitlab on an unsupported platform. Solution: double check on
 the download page whether you downloaded a package for the correct operating
 system.
  
+#### Debian 7 and Upstart
+
+Some variants of Debian 7 (e.g. OpenVZ) use Upstart. This will trip up
+`gitlab-ctl reconfigure` at `ruby_block[supervise_redis_sleep] action run`,
+because the internal Runit cookbook assumes that Debian 7 uses inittab. You can
+work around this as follows.
+
+```
+sudo cp /opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/runit/files/default/gitlab-runsvdir.conf /etc/init/
+sudo initctl start gitlab-runsvdir
+sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure # Resume gitlab-ctl reconfigure
+```
+
 #### TCP ports for GitLab services are already taken
  
 By default, the services in omnibus-gitlab are using the following TCP ports:
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67	67	the download page whether you downloaded a package for the correct operating
68	68	system.
69	69
	70	+#### Debian 7 and Upstart
	71	+
	72	+Some variants of Debian 7 (e.g. OpenVZ) use Upstart. This will trip up
	73	+`gitlab-ctl reconfigure` at `ruby_block[supervise_redis_sleep] action run`,
	74	+because the internal Runit cookbook assumes that Debian 7 uses inittab. You can
	75	+work around this as follows.
	76	+
	77	+```
	78	+sudo cp /opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/runit/files/default/gitlab-runsvdir.conf /etc/init/
	79	+sudo initctl start gitlab-runsvdir
	80	+sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure # Resume gitlab-ctl reconfigure
	81	+```
	82	+
70	83	#### TCP ports for GitLab services are already taken
71	84
72	85	By default, the services in omnibus-gitlab are using the following TCP ports:
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