I opened Synaptic and entered as a search term upstart and got back 3 responses.
upstart 0.2.5-1 upstart-compat-sysv 0.2.5-1 These 2 are installed. However I also saw that this package was not installed. upstart-logd 0.2.5-1 -- Kernel 2.6.17-7-generic fails to boot, I get the BusyBox instead https://launchpad.net/bugs/59792 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs