maybe ask if it's normal on the Kubunt forum as it is a distro specific question

google01103 wrote:maybe ask if it's normal on the Kubunt forum as it is a distro specific question

Good idea. Did you mean the Kubuntu forum on this website? I guess that's "Linux"? Or did you mean an external site?

you could do eitherm but distro specific issues are best addressed on their site, of course the question then is the Ubuntu or Kubuntu forum, as this is not KDE related either should work

Thanks, I've posted a question at kubuntuforums.

Also, as for this issue:

sparhawk wrote:I did have an additional job previously, that must've been wiped when I did the purge/install. I added that back, and now anacron starts up fine (without stopping). I'm not sure why that's considered a job and the others are not, but it's all working fine now, thanks...

I just checked the boot.log again, and it's again saying "stopping" despite being okay for a cycle or so. Well, I won't worry too much about it, but I'll keep an eye on my anacron jobs to make sure that they're running okay. AFAIK it's a bit difficult to tell if anacron is running or not, unless I make a job and follow it.

Just to add some closure to this thread, I found a backup from two months ago (before I did the clean install of Kubuntu), and it also has numerous empty "Starting" messages in /etc/log/boot.log. So I won't worry about that.

OTOH, it did not have the message about stopping anacron, which I still have in my current boot.log. However, I checked in my syslog, and it appears that my anacron job ran fine today, so all is well.

Thank you very much to everyone for their help!!