I think I may also have this problem. Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid LTS 32bit.
Cron will now not start after boot-up, and as above, my box has had several recent hard starts. I don't have console-tools though - I already have KBD. Yesterday, I managed to use the workaround boot / sudo cron stop / boot . etc, then "sudo cron start" and cron worked for a while - I opened gedit with it as a test, but at some point yesterday it shut itself down again. Now, the re-boot workaround won't work anymore, and I can't start cron at all. I'm relatively new to Ubuntu - and maybe I'm wrong, but I can't find any info anywhere else that relates to this problem quite as well. If anyone would like to see reports/logs/etc - tell me where to find them or how to generate them and I'll send them right along. Rob -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592114 Title: upstart doesn't start cron automatically on boot in lucid for server on amd64 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
