I too am unable to recreate this problem - dbus should certainly not be running in recovery mode because dbus is 'start on local-filesystems', but that event will not have been emitted since mountall is not run in recovery mode.
Can you confirm you are entering recovery mode from the grub menu (Advanced options -> recovery)?
Can you also check the following:
1) Enter recovery mode.
2) Select the root shell option.
3) Run "set|grep UPSTART".
Can you also check that you don't have an /etc/init/dbus.override and that your /etc/init/dbus.conf is unmodified - running 'apport-collect -p upstart 1348784' will do this for you.
Attaching the output of 'ps -efwww' and 'initctl list' from recovery mode could also be useful.
I too am unable to recreate this problem - dbus should certainly not be running in recovery mode because dbus is 'start on local-filesystems', but that event will not have been emitted since mountall is not run in recovery mode.
Can you confirm you are entering recovery mode from the grub menu (Advanced options -> recovery)?
Can you also check the following:
1) Enter recovery mode.
2) Select the root shell option.
3) Run "set|grep UPSTART".
What you should see is:
UPSTART_ EVENTS= recovery JOB=friendly- recovery
UPSTART_INSTANCE=
UPSTART_
Can you also check that you don't have an /etc/init/ dbus.override and that your /etc/init/dbus.conf is unmodified - running 'apport-collect -p upstart 1348784' will do this for you.
Attaching the output of 'ps -efwww' and 'initctl list' from recovery mode could also be useful.