I saw this on a fresh Lucid laptop install at some point after applying security updates two weeks ago. Cron had not been running since 10 Sept 2010, and running "sudo stop cron" caused it to reappear on next boot.
This bug caused data backup jobs not to run, and could have been disastrous. -- upstart doesn't start cron automatically on boot in lucid for server on amd64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592114 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
