[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#686442: Re : Bug#686442: initscripts: This failed update completely breaks dpkg

nicolas.patrois at gmail.com nicolas.patrois at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 12:53:15 UTC 2012


Le 04/09/2012 23:45:30, Roger Leigh a écrit :

> So the issue here is that all of the scripts causing the
> "missing LSB tags and overrides" warning are obsolete and broken.
> I would suggest using "dpkg -S /etc/init.d/$file" to see which 
> package
> they belong to, and then purge them if they are obsolete (check
> with dpkg -s first to see if it's conffiles-only).  xfree86-common
> is an obviously ancient script; all of the rest are as well--all
> of the current scripts will have LSB tags, and they do not, so there
> should be no negative consequences in removing them.

> Once you've purged the truly broken ones, try upgrading or installing
> initscripts again, and you should then have it succeed.  Given that
> only xfree86-common resulted in an error, purging it may be 
> sufficient
> (though I would highly recommend taking the time to check and remove
> the others).

aptitude did not even let me purge a package, I had to remove the files 
by hand.
It worked anyway, but what replaces now initrd?

nicolas patrois : pts noir asocial
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