BIG FAT WARNING
Be careful not to upgrade to initscripts 2.88dsf-21 or 2.88dsf-22 is
you want to play safe. They can cause your filesystem to be heavily
trashed, at least it did for me (on two kvm instances, twice on one of
them!):
In an ssh window: (second time, first with -21!)
Preparing to replace sysvinit 2.88dsf-21
(using .../sysvinit_2.88dsf-22_hurd-i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement sysvinit ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up sysvinit (2.88dsf-22) ...
sysvinit: creating /run/initctl
sysvinit: restarting...init: timeout opening/writing control
channel /run/initctl
.init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
.init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
.init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
.init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
.init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
.
init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
.init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
failed.
(Reading database ... 5%
...
On the console: (repeating forever until the kvm process is killed)
/etc/hurd/runsystem.gnu: line 162: 24115 Killed $(SHELL)
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