Rolf, my solution is more a hack than a real solution -- it works fine
in the very controlled environment I'm using but even I wouldn't
recommend adding it officially to any distribution. The way I'd go is to
backport the new upstart that is said to include support for chroots
(it'll be need to be
We've been hit by this, too and managed to create a workaround that
requires no changes in the initscripts of the services and still allows
starting them the traditional way in a Lucid-based chroot. See the
(quite long) description of or problems and our solution in this blog
post: