Comment 17 for bug 484209

> I have a workstation that the fix dosn't worked too.
> I'm not gettting errors on "start portmap" but on "status portmap | grep -q start/running"
> because status portmap is returning "start/spawned".

That would indicate a separate bug in upstart itself. The upstart author has repeatedly assured us that 'start $foo' is not supposed to return until service $foo is running. If you are seeing this is not the case, please file a new bug report against upstart.