I was able to recreate this on another machine by installing a kubuntu knot2 livecd, then installing upstart + upstart-compat-sysv, then dist- upgrading.
As a result, I'm marking upstart as affected. I will investigate further to see if upstart is really involved, but it looks like a suspect right now. -- security policy error with hald after latest updates https://launchpad.net/bugs/58165 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
