Hmm, well, as well as not being able to startup. I also find I can not
shutdown!

I can switch to a console and press ctrl-alt-del and (I exec'd init
with -v --debug) see a lot of messages fly by; and then something
stops upstart from proceeding to shutdown the system.

Likewise I can press the power button, a lot of message and the system
is still operational.

It seems that upstart is waiting for some kind of lock / event to
occur before allowing the shutdown to finish. My guess is that the
same lock is preventing successful startup.

I am stumped asto how to debug this at all; I'm not even able to log
the messages that upstart sends out. Redirection does not seem to be
working from the point of sulogin.

Is there a logging option, or anything further I can use?

Thanks,
Anand

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Johan Kiviniemi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Nothing so far indicates you’re encountering a bug in Upstart.
>
> The problem seems to lie with something in Ubuntu that’s supposed to get
> the lo interface up properly. Upstart’s upstream code has nothing to do
> with this.
>
> --
> upstart fails to start system into multiuser mode
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/506727
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>
> Status in NULL Project: Invalid
> Status in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>
> Unfortunately I am not able to get upstart to start my system.
>
> Initially this was because of #505530, but with the supplied patch applied, 
> mountall succeeds and I am no longer dropped into 'mountall-shell.conf'
>
> Instead the system boots, Upstart runs but it never gets to the point where 
> it goes to runlevel 2 (i.e. start rc RUNLEVEL=2).
>
> Unfortunately I do not know of any way I can capture the output of 
> '/sbin/init -v --debug' (which might have some clues); even booting the 
> system with 'init=/bin/bash' and then trying to redirect things does not work.
>
> The only way I have been able to bring my system up is by:
>  - booting with 'init=/bin/bash'
>  - modifying /etc/init/mountall.conf and placing in its 'post-script script' 
> the line 'start tty2'
>  - logging in and running X (manually in failsafe mode, normal mode does not 
> work).
>
> The kernel version is 2.6.32-9-generic (2.6.32-10-generic fails to boot) and 
> upstart is 0.6.3-11
>
> What would be really useful is a command line option to tell you what upstart 
> (init) would run, in what order, but not actually do it. What would also be 
> useful is something to indicate which jobs had already been run.
>
> Any debugging assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
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