telinit crashed with SIGSEGV in main()

[EiTheL]

Binary package hint: upstart

I'm not wure what this program is for but it crashed while firefox was working pretty hard while update manager was working
running ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /sbin/telinit
Package: upstart-compat-sysv 0.3.9-7
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: init u
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: upstart
Stacktrace:
 #0 0xb809916e in ?? () from /sbin/telinit
 #1 0xb8095a9e in main () from /sbin/telinit
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /sbin/telinit
 main () from /sbin/telinit
ThreadStacktrace:
 .
 Thread 1 (process 7695):
 #0 0xb809916e in ?? () from /sbin/telinit
 #1 0xb8095a9e in main () from /sbin/telinit
Title: telinit crashed with SIGSEGV in main()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-4-generic i686
UserGroups: root