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effective than trying to write to the console.

Enabling debugging in upstart by adding a 'nih_set_logging_level'[1] to
put all the messages out to syslog -- and ensure that syslog is running
before init is started with a script like:

  #!/bin/sh
  /sbin/syslogd
  exec /sbin/init.real


Running upstart is init inside an OpenVZ VE environment exposed some
OpenVZ bugs but also made it possible to "reboot" init without the
entire system following -- and to attach strace or gdb to the init
process from "outside" the system and debug it interactively.

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  I can't recall the exact method right now, sorry, but it is obvious.

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