[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#464869: Bug#464869: initscripts: [upgrade] sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: `"'

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Ross Boylan]
> Package: initscripts
> Version: 2.86.ds1-53
> Followup-For: Bug #464869
> 
> Same error messages here.  Is anything broken by this difficulty?  If so,
> is there a work around?

The only thing that is broken by the bug in initscripts, is that the
file /etc/init.d/bootclean that should be removed is left behind.  I
will fix it in the next upload.

> 
> I had a bunch of other errors on installation, with many like this:
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp.rb:21:in `require': no such file to load -- bdb (LoadError)
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp.rb:21
> 	from /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:27:in `require'
> 	from /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:27
> scrollkeeper-update: deferring update until scrollkeeper is configured
> 
> Also popular
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gimp:
>  gimp depends on libhal1 (>= 0.5.10); however:
>   Package libhal1 is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gimp (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> : deferring update until scrollkeeper is configured
> 
> The latter left gimp unconfigured.
> 
> As I said, I don't know if the current bug has anything to do with those problems.

I believe these are unrelated to this BTS report.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen