Comment 5 for bug 451556

Yeah, rsyslog has had a couple bugs filed recently about the "Connection refused" message: bug 452078. Looking at their logs, every service package is having the same problem. I'm not yet sure if they are in a chroot or not (in which case it's a dup of bug 430224).

But you're saying that this is in a kvm, so we may be seeing a new upstart bug.