Thursday, April 2, 2015

Ubuntu 15.04 Broken Upstart / Working Systemd

Ubuntu 15.04 I believe has switched over to upstart which in turn has broken more then a few 3rd party apps I had installed.

For example whenever I tried to install plex media server I would get the following error:

"initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused"


Here's the fix that worked for me:

sudo dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl
ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl

 Credit for this little tweak: https://www.nesono.com/?q=node/368


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7 comments:

  1. MacroPowerJuly 19, 2015 at 7:50 PM

    This didn't work for me. My filesystem was forced into read-only mode and I couldn't boot.

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  2. MattHBOctober 19, 2015 at 5:02 AM

    worked for me.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 5, 2015 at 8:06 AM

    Thank, it worked!

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  4. ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ ΘΕΟΔΟΣΗΣNovember 16, 2015 at 9:57 AM

    Thank, it worked!

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  5. TigerDavidDecember 6, 2015 at 5:44 PM

    Working like a charm!

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  6. ghost riderJune 13, 2016 at 10:29 AM

    thanks

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2017 at 10:32 PM

    Be careful with dpkg-divert, and swapping upstart and systemd. I couldn't boot either after that, and after a day and a half of problems at booting/identification, I had to reinstall ubuntu 16.04.

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