Comment 5 for bug 1480785

The ofono job on the Ubuntu phone has the following start rule:

  start on started dbus and rild-ready

The rild-ready event will have been emitted as soon as 'initctl emit' is called, but the command won't return until all jobs depending on it have finished. If ofono has not started, the cause will be that the 'started dbus' event has not triggered, rather than that rild hasn't started correctly.

dbus is 'start on filesystem'. The filesystem event happens late in boot and requires all the filesystems to have been successfully mounted. So something is probably blocking one or more filesystem mounts from completing.

Additional information to gather when this problem occurs:

ps awx|grep mountall
initctl list
status dbus

If this problem is consistently reproducible, modifying /etc/init/mountall.conf to run mountall with --verbose and capturing /var/log/upstart/mountall.log would also be helpful.