Esta solução funciona para o Upstart 1.5 no Ubuntu 12.04.
Abra a configuração do upstart:
sudo vim /etc/dbus-1/system.d/Upstart.conf
Comente a política default
, por exemplo
<policy context="default">
...
</policy>
e cole o bloco de este patch :
<!--
Allow any user to invoke all of the methods on Upstart, its jobs
or their instances, and to get and set properties - since Upstart
isolates commands by user.
-->
<policy context="default">
<allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" />
<allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" />
<allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart"
send_interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6" />
<allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart"
send_interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job" />
<allow send_destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart"
send_interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Instance" />
</policy>