Public bug reported: In a recent edgy upgrade sysvinit was replaced with upstart. I guess upstart doesn't parse /etc/inittab as this line SV:123456:respawn:/usr/bin/svscanboot seems to have no effect.
replacing with a file in /etc/event.d --- /etc/event.d/svscan --- start on runlevel-1 start on runlevel-2 start on runlevel-3 start on runlevel-4 start on runlevel-5 start on runlevel-6 stop on shutdown respawn /usr/bin/svscanboot --- EOF --- seems to work though. ** Affects: daemontools-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- upstart breaks inittab https://launchpad.net/bugs/66615 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs