anacron (e.g., cron.daily) not working after upgrade to 15.04

[Adam Funk]

On 2015-05-20, Colin Law wrote:

> On 20 May 2015 at 09:04, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yesterday I upgraded two machines to 15.04, & this morning both of
>> them have failed to run /etc/cron.daily jobs with this error e-mail:
>>
>> Subject: Cron <root at bunsen>   start -q anacron || :
>>
>> start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
...
Thanks for the advice, but it turns out to be my own fault.  Years ago
I modified /etc/cron.d/anacron to make the daily jobs run earlier in
the morning; until a little while ago, the file looked like this:

#v+
# /etc/cron.d/anacron: crontab entries for the anacron package

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

#30 7    * * *   root	test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null
# AF 2009-12-01: change of time copied; 2010-04-20: 06h01->05h45
11 05 * * *   root   start -q anacron || :
#v-

So I replaced the old command with the new one & I think it's working
now.