Comment 20 for bug 543506

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Ben Lings (ben-lings) wrote : Re: Upstart not starting jobs on boot

I'm having intermittent problems with some services not starting on boot. From what I can tell, when it doesn't work, anything run as a result of the upstart rc-sysinit job doesn't happen.

When the problem happens, I get the following symptoms:

runlevel 'unknown' (from running `runlevel`)
cron not started
apache2 not started

When the problem hasn't happened, these services do start and runlevel is 'N 2'.

The last time this happened was after a kernel update (maybe this makes a race condition happen?). Restarting fixed the problem. The system is running MythTV so only gets restarted when required for updates.