go: die even more reliably on error

run.go

@@ -139,42 +139,31 @@ func run() error {
 	// channel used to check whether the app had troubles starting up.
 	started := make(chan error, 1)
 
+	defer close(started)
+
 	go func(ok chan error) {
 		p := setting.Port()
 		h := setting.Host()
 
 		address := h + ":" + strconv.Itoa(p)
 
-		if err = e.Start(address); err != nil && err != http.ErrServerClosed {
+		if err := e.Start(address); err != nil && err != http.ErrServerClosed {
-			log.Error("troubles running the server, bailing", "error", err.Error())
+			log.Error("troubles running the server, bailing...", "error", err)
 
-			shutdownTimeout := 3 * time.Second
-			ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(
-				context.Background(), shutdownTimeout,
-			)
-
-			defer func() {
-				cancel()
 			started <- err
-				close(started)
-			}()
-
-			log.Info("shutting down the server")
-
-			err = e.Shutdown(ctx)
-			if err == ctx.Err() && err != nil {
-				log.Info("RIP this is taking too long")
-				started <- err
-
-				e.Server.Close()
 
 			return
 		}
-		}
 
-		started <- err
+		started <- nil
 	}(started)
 
+	quit := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
+
+	signal.Notify(quit, os.Interrupt)
+	signal.Notify(quit, syscall.SIGTERM)
+	signal.Notify(quit, syscall.SIGHUP)
+
 	// non-blocking channel receive.
 	select {
 	case err := <-started:
@@ -182,16 +171,7 @@ func run() error {
 			return err
 		}
 
-	default:
+	case <-quit:
-	}
-
-	quit := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
-
-	signal.Notify(quit, os.Interrupt)
-	signal.Notify(quit, syscall.SIGTERM)
-	signal.Notify(quit, syscall.SIGHUP)
-	<-quit
-
 		shutdownTimeout := 10 * time.Second
 
 		ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), shutdownTimeout)
@@ -210,6 +190,7 @@ func run() error {
 			log.Error("There was an error shutting the server down")
 			return err
 		}
+	}
 
 	return nil
 }