I'm seeing this too. Presumably this is because the runit package doesn't handle being installed alongside upstart yet.
For now, I've just added the following to /etc/event.d/runsvdir: start on startup stop on shutdown respawn /usr/sbin/runsvdir-start -- runsvdir not started at boot-up https://launchpad.net/bugs/74135 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
