loss of restart and shutdown options in exit menu

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> 
> Do you have "upstart" installed ? apt-file shows me that, with sysvinit, 
> it's the only package that have "*bin/reboot".
> 
> $ apt-file search bin/reboot
> klibc-utils: usr/lib/klibc/bin/reboot
> ltp-kernel-test: usr/lib/debian-test/tests/linux/testcases/bin/reboot01
> ltp-kernel-test: usr/lib/debian-test/tests/linux/testcases/bin/reboot02
> sysvinit: sbin/reboot
> upstart: sbin/reboot
> 
> I guess you should check if it's installed.
> 
> 

It's certainly installed, otherwise my computer couldn't start, this 
confirms it:

$ aptitude search upstart

i A upstart
i A upstart-compat-sysv
i A upstart-logd


Which means all those things are installed on my system and have been 
automatically installed, no doubt as a dependency of the ubuntu-minimal 
package.