It means you don't have permissions to tell Upstart what to do. As you said, you're missing sudo and normal user has no permissions to start or stop system jobs. The cryptic string is just very engineerish (and exact) way to say it :-)

Aug 5, 2010 · Upstart is the replacement for the traditional init.d style System-V bootup scripts. However, upstart is more than just a collection of bootup scripts. It allows in fact a minute planning and control of the start of different daemons. For instance, in order to automount network drives, you need first a working network.

Sep 18, 2017 · While Upstarted is deprecated on 16.04, it is also installed and supported. The Q&A SysV, Upstart and systemd init script coexistence explains the relationship between Upstart and Systemd on 16.04. That said, using both systemd and upstart together causes extra complexity to debug, as

I also add a script -- that does run on startup-- to switch upstart into debug logging mode: sudo -s cat <<EOCONF > /etc/init/upstart-debug.conf description "enable debugging of upstart from within" author "@dch__" version "0.1" start on startup task exec initctl log-priority debug As it's a task it runs just once.

Sep 24, 2011 · It wasn't there after the restart, so it seems as though upstart definitely isn't starting my service. I suppose it could be dying at an earlier point in the process, but that seems rather unlikely given the simplicity of it all. UPDATE 2: I've just upgraded to 11.10 which includes an upstart upgrade, but this problem still occurs.

May 7, 2015 · /etc/init contains configuration files used by Upstart. Upstart is a young service management package championed by Ubuntu. Files in /etc/init are configuration files telling Upstart how and when to start, stop, reload the configuration, or query the status of a service. As of lucid, Ubuntu is transitioning from SysVinit to Upstart, which ...

Oct 24, 2017 · From the Upstart Cookbook, Standard idioms: If you want the job to start "around the time" (actually just after) the equivalent System-V job would run, specify: start on stopped rc And from Determining the stop on Condition: Shut down is not as event rich as startup. A common idiom is to specify your stop on as: stop on runlevel [016]

Tools like launchd provide a mechanism for "never timeout" (the ExitTimeOut property can be set to 0), but it seems you must always specify a non-zero value for Upstart. Certainly I can just specify a very large value and call it good, but I was curious if there was a way to be explicit about it.

Jan 4, 2017 · Now, to answer the question about why it works to restart Network Manager with "service network-manager restart". The service command is used with both Upstart scripts and SysV init scripts, preferring the former. Network Manager also has an Upstart script installed on 16.04 at /etc/init/network-manager.conf.

In this case, apache2 has not been converted to upstart. So, to disable apache2 you just run. sudo update-rc.d apache2 disable sudo service apache2 stop Disable services (jobs) in upstart. Upstart job definitions do not have an update-rc.d command. To disable the job, you need to edit the job file directly to disable it.