A long way back in this thread it was reported that the below message would appear in /var/log/messages when upstart had problems running /etc/rc.sysinit. Is anyone still seeing this?
init: Failed to spawn rc-sysinit main process: unable to open console: Input/output error Wout On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:57, Pascal W. <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm also experiencing this problem on a fresh 10.04 desktop > installation. > > Quite often non of my installed services (dropbear ssh, tightvncserver > and sabnzbd) are started. This is very annoying to me because my Ubuntu > box is running headless. > > -- > Upstart not starting jobs on boot > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543506 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: upstart > > On Lucid with: > > # apt-cache policy upstart > upstart: > Installed: 0.6.5-4 > Candidate: 0.6.5-4 > Version table: > *** 0.6.5-4 0 > 500 http://apt.interlinx.bc.ca lucid/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > during boot, upstart just seems to stop starting jobs. A number of jobs > are started but all of the jobs that should be started never gets complete. > I end up (though having a job that starts a shell on a tty) having to > manually: > > # service ssh start > # service rc-sysinit start > (at least) > > to get the system up into a semblance of a multi-user run-level. > > I'd be happy to provide more information but I'm at a bit of a loss as to > how to debug this situation. > > FWIW, my "debug shell" job which gives me a shell that I can debug upstart > from is: > > description "Start a debug shell" > > start on startup > > expect fork > > script > exec /root/open -c 12 /bin/bash > end script > > I have no doubt it's probably not 100% correct as I'm really only just > cribbing it up from what I can see in other jobs. Hopefully I have not > exacerbated the problem with that job. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/543506/+subscribe > -- Upstart not starting jobs on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543506 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
