update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

[dino99]

Upgrading xorg on Utopic (booted with upstart), the install dialog-box have displayed this warning:

Setting up x11-common (1:7.7+7ubuntu2) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
 * Setting up X socket directories... [ OK ]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: sysv-rc 2.88dsf-41ubuntu18
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-14.20-generic 3.16.2
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Mon Sep 15 12:12:53 2014
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: sysvinit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

Seems a 2.89 new package is available; maybe could you set it into a ppa for testing purpose, as it have lot of bugfixes and the too old badly 'shutdown' issue disturbing the next reboot has also some workarounds/fixes.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/sysvinit-devel/2014-02/msg00007.html

[dino99 (9d9)]

Debian 'experimental' also have that one: sysvinit (2.88dsf-55.3)

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.88dsf-55.3_changelog

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

This is still present in Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus

[William Geiger (whgiii-q)]

I am also getting this on Xenial I found a bug report on Debian that discusses this issue and the causes. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718232 The last post on Debian claims that this was fixed with resolvconf (1.75). I have resolvconf (1.781.78ubuntu2) on my system and the bug is still there, don't know if there is a difference between the resolvconf on Debian and Ubuntu. Mantainer might want to take a look at what the did with the Debian package.

Hope this helps.

[Sharcoux (darksharcoux)]

Seems to come from this:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01109.html

[xb5i7o (xb5i7o)]

this bug is suddenly present again after doing these updates.

See attachment screenshot

[xb5i7o (xb5i7o)]

on Ubuntu Xenial

[M. Kurt (paralaks)]

I could not get plymouth-manager running. When I tried to reinstall I ran into this problem. I am on 16.04

[Andrew (hospes-a)]

The same bug for me. Logs:

Setting up procps (2:3.3.10-4ubuntu2.3) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
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'