Public bug reported: Starting and stopping services via upstart causes errors in the form of "init: Error while reading from descriptor: Bad file descriptor"
with a lot of services and on multiple machines featuring different hardware configurations. The services start without errors if launched with the same parameters from the command line. A result of this is the inability to launch lightdm. The system becomes near unuseable. Ubuntu version is 14.04.01 upstart package is up to date. ** Affects: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to upstart in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1373588 Title: Starting/Stopping services causes "init: Error while reading from descriptor: Bad file descriptor" Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Starting and stopping services via upstart causes errors in the form of "init: Error while reading from descriptor: Bad file descriptor" with a lot of services and on multiple machines featuring different hardware configurations. The services start without errors if launched with the same parameters from the command line. A result of this is the inability to launch lightdm. The system becomes near unuseable. Ubuntu version is 14.04.01 upstart package is up to date. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/1373588/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp