Comment 2 for bug 1369493

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