I agree it's probably not the exact same issue, but definitely in the "upstart has a race condition" bucket of issues.
I'm kinda impressed that you've gone through the heroics of rebooting your machine 500 times in the name of bug-squashing... that's persistence :-P >That doesn't sound like the exact same issue. Well over 500 restarts >here and absolute consistency found, in that either I get runlevel N 2 >and all services started fine or I get runlevel unknown and services not >started (in my case proftpd and cupsd). > >No doubt they are similar and most likely caused by race conditions >being created in the way upstart handles starting up services. > >Anyone else happily go back to a slower bootup time if it gave them some >control over what order services started up? :D On 30/06/10 21:08, phireph0x wrote: >> As I mentioned in #543506, I'm also seeing this issue on Ubuntu Server >> 10.04. I've tried some of the workarounds mentioned in this thread >> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/543506/comments/83), >> including commenting out "console output" in all /etc/init/*.conf files. >> This had no effect, and services such as lighttpd aren't automatically >> starting that should be. >> >> When I run 'runlevel', the output is N 2, but again, my services still >> aren't being started properly. >> >> -- CUPS and other system services not starting at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554172 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs