Hello James,

I can confirm that the correct version of 'upstart' has been installed
huub@3436JK2:~$ dpkg -s upstart
Package: upstart
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 1621
Maintainer: James Hunt <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 1.12.1-0ubuntu4
Replaces: startup-tasks, system-services, sysvinit, upstart-compat-sysv, upstart-job
Provides: startup-tasks, system-services, upstart-compat-sysv, upstart-job
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.2.16), libjson-c2 (>= 0.10), libnih-dbus1 (>= 1.0.0), libnih1 (>= 1.0.0), libselinux1 (>= 1.32), libudev1 (>= 183), sysvinit-utils, initscripts, mountall, ifupdown (>= 0.6.10ubuntu5), libjson0 (>= 0.10-1.1ubuntu1), debianutils (>= 4)
Suggests: python3, graphviz, bash-completion, upstart-monitor
Breaks: friendly-recovery (<< 0.2.13), libc6 (<< 2.12.1-0ubuntu12)
Conflicts: lxcguest, startup-tasks, system-services, sysvinit, upstart-compat-sysv, upstart-job
Conffiles:
 /etc/logrotate.d/upstart 070767086a27883ec119e1dde779a856
 /etc/cron.daily/upstart 761747ebd3d1677620d5af50c9900b13
 /etc/dbus-1/system.d/Upstart.conf 64be74cddb0c74b7d98202b40389784c
 /etc/bash_completion.d/upstart 080f7eee4a3f3e5f76197eaa581fb4da
 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99upstart d150fce36cf22f5504e4dbc89b4826e0
 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/00upstart 46b4576b1f2ceffb2450a88d58786b95
 /etc/init/tty5.conf 6d5794f72a1098b008e53e326a6bb5a0
 /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf a50c045d9390a6e6c43c18b19cd72fe5
 /etc/init/rcS.conf 8533688686f75d7bcf20da5a0d36d94b
 /etc/init/flush-early-job-log.conf 09e959647877c39f6490ad29b8a35a28
 /etc/init/wait-for-state.conf 20b85b55c3f1e040fdbbf669afe4d2a1
 /etc/init/shutdown.conf 559659602cefe7e8d3c1e76820f5ae5d
 /etc/init/upstart-udev-bridge.conf 2c24bb70877476b5e7016ccf6de745a4
 /etc/init/tty2.conf 0d9326fdda081ac96d92bbc57ff773e4
 /etc/init/failsafe.conf 0b88eeccf6c8fd456e886aa7a76e3291
 /etc/init/rc.conf 3ebc6ddcd00482cfb24ce09a14ded29f
 /etc/init/upstart-file-bridge.conf 57ea7ed6cba1f1259ac87410c59237ca
 /etc/init/console.conf 8d79b0205f2daffb473604ce53e1dc83
 /etc/init/tty1.conf f42f2298f711147ecf177054294861a7
 /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf 16e6603524084b63b0f0ca04eb56757e
 /etc/init/upstart-socket-bridge.conf 5f3eaca09ee1f03d5d0686ea99f8c051
 /etc/init/tty4.conf 2c78cd865d848bb2674104905151dbe2
 /etc/init/tty3.conf 6608f08adf00a282358a1eeb9bdcf78e
 /etc/init/tty6.conf e8ad2f0411614f9c8dc9c4e364763549
 /etc/init/container-detect.conf 6bae6257355ad7322e7263e567817465
 /etc/upstart-xsessions ec9aa92a5c50938479d711daa9ee774a
Description: event-based init daemon
 upstart is a replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles
 starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during
 shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.
Homepage: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
Orig-Maintainer: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>

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Furthermore the behavior can be reproduced on my system. Upgrade from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS
Starting Google Chrome result in crashes

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Content of /var/crash
huub@3436JK2:/var/crash$ ll 
totaal 38256
drwxrwsrwt  2 root     whoopsie     4096 apr 16 21:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 root     root         4096 mrt 15 15:48 ../
-rw-rw-r--  1 huub     whoopsie        0 apr 16 21:05 drag
-rw-rw----  1 root     whoopsie        0 apr 16 07:59 .lock
-rw-r-----  1 huub     whoopsie 10436547 apr 11 09:40 _opt_extras.ubuntu.com_my-weather-indicator_bin_huub.1000.crash
-rw-rw-r--  1 huub     whoopsie        0 apr 11 09:42 _opt_extras.ubuntu.com_my-weather-indicator_bin_huub.1000.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie whoopsie        0 apr 11 09:44 _opt_extras.ubuntu.com_my-weather-indicator_bin_huub.1000.uploaded
-rw-r-----  1 huub     whoopsie    39835 apr 15 14:59 _opt_extras.ubuntu.com_my-weather-indicator_bin_my-weather-indicator.1000.crash
-rw-rw-r--  1 huub     whoopsie        0 apr 15 14:42 _opt_extras.ubuntu.com_my-weather-indicator_bin_my-weather-indicator.1000.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie whoopsie        0 apr 15 14:42 _opt_extras.ubuntu.com_my-weather-indicator_bin_my-weather-indicator.1000.uploaded
-rw-r-----  1 huub     whoopsie  6511134 apr  9 16:59 _opt_teamviewer9_tv_bin_TeamViewer_Desktop.1000.crash
-rw-r-----  1 root     whoopsie  6804207 apr 16 20:25 _sbin_init.0.crash
-rw-r--r--  1 root     whoopsie        0 apr  9 17:00 _sbin_init.0.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie whoopsie        0 apr  9 17:00 _sbin_init.0.uploaded
-rw-r-----  1 huub     whoopsie 10248445 apr 10 08:45 _usr_bin_ubuntu-tweak.1000.crash
-rw-rw-r--  1 huub     whoopsie        0 apr 10 08:45 _usr_bin_ubuntu-tweak.1000.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie whoopsie        0 apr 10 08:47 _usr_bin_ubuntu-tweak.1000.uploaded
-rw-r-----  1 huub     whoopsie  2234450 apr 16 08:00 _usr_bin_webapp-container.1000.crash
-rw-rw----  1 huub     whoopsie        0 apr 10 08:02 _usr_bin_webapp-container.1000.upload
-rw-------  1 whoopsie whoopsie        0 apr 10 08:02 _usr_bin_webapp-container.1000.uploaded
-rw-r-----  1 huub     whoopsie  2876881 apr 15 14:49 _usr_lib_chromium-browser_chromium-browser.1000.crash