Comment 2 for bug 523621

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LaMont Jones (lamont) wrote : Re: squid_2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu5 fails to install with " Unknown job: squid" error

It may be using upstart, but it's not starting. reproduced with squid_2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu9 on amd64:

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The following NEW packages will be installed:
  squid
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/817kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,011kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package squid.
(Reading database ... 190275 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking squid (from .../squid_2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu9_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up squid (2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu9) ...
start: Unknown job: squid
invoke-rc.d: initscript squid, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing squid (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 squid

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# dpkg --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/squid_2.7.STABLE7-1ubuntu9_amd64.deb | grep init.d
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2010-03-22 08:45 ./etc/init.d/
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2010-03-22 08:45 ./etc/init.d/squid -> /lib/init/upstart-job
# ls -l /etc/init.d/squid
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2010-03-22 20:50 /etc/init.d/squid -> /lib/init/upstart-job

lamont