I was surprised to find it running after booting my system. Apparently it's still used for Xorg session management, like "/sbin/upstart --user" in the ps(1) listing. My guess is that lightdm or something else that initiates your X session either by default, or is configured to, run /sbin/upstart in user mode to handle launching everything in one's session (the panel, the window manager, etc.).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582421 Title: removing upstart breaks user login Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After "apt remove upstart" it's impossible to login into user's session via lightdm on xubuntu 16.04 - I thought we've finally ditched that junk, how come it still breaks the system on removal? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1582421/+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