Hello. kai@khms.westfalen.de has reported that you had a problem when you removed the "base" package. Since this package was supposed to be essential, I wonder how you achieved it. Did you remove this package by using dpkg's command line or by using dselect? If the former: Did you use --force-remove-essential? If the latter: Do you remember what dselect [A]ccess method were you using? Thanks. -- "e258bb8989801259328f44ce4ea89fcb" (a truly random sig)