15.10 swapspace produces error, can't connect to upstart

[Timothy Miller]

It appears that swapspace is broken for 15.10, expecting upstart, although 15.10 uses systemd. Here are the messages I get:

# sudo apt-get install swapspace
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gcc-4.9-base:i386 libapt-inst1.5 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libboost-filesystem1.55.0 libboost-iostreams1.55.0 libboost-system1.55.0 libgconf2-4 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin
  libgnome2-common libgphoto2-port10 libhogweed2 libicu52 libilmbase6 libjasper1 libjson0 libmircommon3 libnettle4 libobjc-4.9-dev libopenexr6 libopus0 liborbit-2-0 libreadline5
  libregexp-common-perl libspice-server1 libvpx1 libxcb-util0 linux-cloud-tools-3.19.0-28 linux-cloud-tools-3.19.0-28-generic linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic
  linux-image-extra-3.13.0-37-generic linux-tools-3.19.0-28 linux-tools-3.19.0-28-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  swapspace
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.7 kB of archives.
After this operation, 122 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe swapspace amd64 1.10-4ubuntu3 [28.7 kB]
Fetched 28.7 kB in 0s (414 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package swapspace.
(Reading database ... 136281 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../swapspace_1.10-4ubuntu3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking swapspace (1.10-4ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.4-1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (225-1ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Setting up swapspace (1.10-4ubuntu3) ...
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
insserv: warning: script 'screen-cleanup' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'

And then it just hangs there, and I have to kill the install.

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