Hi Petter, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:22:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the > update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it > would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks > existed, and add them if they were missing. This broke all packages > being upgraded after the new version was installed, as their init.d > scripts will no longer be executed. This problem was fixed in version > 2.86.ds1-18, but the broken packages will stay broken until their > postinst scripts are executed again. ^^^^^^^^ > > Those with packages being broken from this bug can fix it by using > 'apt-get --reinstall install package' on the affected packages. A > quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in > /etc/init.d/. > > for p in `dpkg -S /etc/init.d/*|cut -d: -f1|sort -u`; do > apt-get --reinstall install -y $p > done > > I'm sorry for the problems I have caused. > > Friendly, > -- As a test, on my working unstable system, I did this: I made a note of the current links for 'cron' ran 'rm /etc/rc*.d/*cron' ran '/etc/init.d/cron stop' ran 'bash /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.postinst' and found it to restore the default setup. I thought that 'reinstall' seems very time consuming and thought that there may be a diffent way to do it. Would this work for (most|all)? cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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