Comment 94 for bug 543506

Adding additional confirmation.

Clean Lucid 10.04 Desktop 32-bit install
2.6.32-22-generic
All updates applied

I noticed proftpd and cupsd not starting up on some system restarts. I did over 50 restarts and there are two absolutely consistent results:

a. On the restarts when proftpd and cupsd start up successfully the output of the
runlevel command looks normal i.e.

graham@gt-desktop:~$ runlevel
N 2

b. On the restarts when proftpd and cupsd do not start up the output of the
runlevel command is not normal, it gives this:

graham@gt-desktop:~$ runlevel
unknown

The services can be started manually fine after startup in situation b.