[Bug 1582421] Re: removing upstart breaks user login

[Joe Philipps]

I was surprised to find it running after booting my system.  Apparently
it's still used for Xorg session management, like "/sbin/upstart --user"
in the ps(1) listing.  My guess is that lightdm or something else that
initiates your X session either by default, or is configured to, run
/sbin/upstart in user mode to handle launching everything in one's
session (the panel, the window manager, etc.).

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Title:
  removing upstart breaks user login

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After "apt remove upstart" it's impossible to login into user's
  session via lightdm on xubuntu 16.04 - I thought we've finally ditched
  that junk, how come it still breaks the system on removal?

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