Problem still exist in fresh installation of 16.04.1 on November of 2016.
But below procedure worked for me
http://askubuntu.com/questions/765565/how-to-fix-processing-with-runit-and-git-daemon-run
sudo apt-get purge runit
sudo apt-get purge git-all
sudo apt-get purge git
sudo apt-get autoremove
su
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1448164 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1448164
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1448164
runit cannot be installed (Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect
to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused)
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I've just installed Ubuntu 16.04, added vim, terminator, eclipse... just bunch
of base packages and try to install git. Got result as below.
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade doesn't help.
root@sfplap:~# apt-get install git-all
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependen
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Binary package hint: manpages-pl
In Polish translation on page
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/pl/man8/init.8.html one read about
/etc/inittab. This file isn't present on Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) system and isn't
mentioned by English init(8) man page (in Ustart handb