Comment 3 for bug 125687

Confirmed that replacing upstart with sysvinit eliminates the problem. This is no fix, but it does seem to point at upstart.

HOST INFO:
# uname -a
Linux mpk-acura1 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
root@mpk-acura1:/var/log/apt# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 7.10 \n \l

//*** BEGIN APTITUDE LOG

[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] apparmor
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] apparmor-utils
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] startup-tasks
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] system-services
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] ubuntu-minimal
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] ubuntu-standard
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] upstart
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] upstart-compat-sysv
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] upstart-logd
[HOLD] firefox
[HOLD] firefox-gnome-support
[HOLD] libc6
[HOLD] libc6-i686
[HOLD] libssl0.9.8
[HOLD] nscd
[HOLD] samba
[HOLD] tzdata
[HOLD] ubufox
[HOLD] winbind
[INSTALL] sysvinit

//*** END APTITUDE LOG

//*** BEGIN APT LOG
Log started: 2007-11-19 18:28:39
(Reading database ... 169744 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing apparmor-utils ...
Removing apparmor ...
Unloading AppArmor profiles : done.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Removing iputils-arping ...
Removing librpc-xml-perl ...
Removing libterm-readkey-perl ...
Removing ubuntu-minimal ...
Removing startup-tasks ...
Removing system-services ...
Removing ubuntu-standard ...
Removing upstart-logd ...
Removing upstart-compat-sysv ...
Removing upstart ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-rt
Selecting previously deselected package sysvinit.
(Reading database ... 169539 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking sysvinit (from .../sysvinit_2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu31_i386.deb) ...
Setting up sysvinit (2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu31) ...

//*** END APT LOG