upstart 'start' '`stop' hang (Ubuntu 14)

[thorsummoner]

Issuing sudo service avahi-aliases start and stop hang. Waiting and breaking with ^C show a status of; which look reasonable to me, its just that the command to start/stop hangs.
status works fine, I haven't tried other service commands.

$ sudo service avahi-aliases start  # .. ^C
$ sudo service avahi-aliases status
avahi-aliases start/pre-start, process 2089

$ sudo service avahi-aliases stop  # .. ^C
$ sudo service avahi-aliases status
avahi-aliases stop/pre-start, process 2089

Confirmed on two ubuntu14 machines

installation method:

sudo apt-get install python-avahi
python2.7 -m pip install git+https://github.com/airtonix/avahi-aliases.git
sudo service avahi-aliases start  # this is where it hangs