Agreed, I've seen this too and it is confusing if you aren't intimately familiar with upstart. This should most likely be fixed upstream, so adding the upstream upstart task as well.
Marking Ubuntu upstart task as Triaged, Importance Low. ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Also affects: upstart Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - meaningless message when the user is not allowed to perform a command + initctl: meaningless message when the user is not allowed to perform a command -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705679 Title: initctl: meaningless message when the user is not allowed to perform a command -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs