Subject: Re: [vserver] About Ubuntu Karmic Koala ...
From: John Feuerstein <john@feurix.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:55:44 +0100

Dragan Saraginov wrote:
> I followed the instructions described at 
> http://linux-vserver.org/Upstart_issues and upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10
> went fine. But there is an issue with starting cron daemon. The
> 'service crond restart' complains about not being able to connect to 
> '/com/ubuntu/upstart'

Some questions if you're using 2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7:

Did you patch the guest's upstart as described in the wiki?
Do you have a /sbin/init process with pid 1 within your guest?
Did you restart the guest after the upgrade, and more important,
is the running init process provided by the old sysv-init or by upstart?

Note that upstart's /sbin/init creates a private dbus socket at
/com/ubuntu/upstart, which is used by the upstart tools if invoked as
root. If you want to query upstart about anything as a non-root user,
you need dbus-daemon to do access control.

By the way, the default cron daemon service is simply called "cron".