Upgrading base-files wants to wipe out half of system
Searching Google and this list archives haven't come up with anything on this.
Running apt-get upgrade, base-files and a number of other packages are being
held back. Doing a dist-upgrade or manually upgrading base-files gives me
this:
# apt-get install base-files
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
x11-apps xorg-docs-core libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libhttp-daemon-perl
libevent-1.4-2 libfile-listing-perl xfonts-scalable xulrunner-1.9.1 libwww-
robotrules-perl bind9utils libopts25 x11-xfs-utils libhttp-date-perl liblwp-
mediatypes-perl libauthen-ntlm-perl libhtml-parser-perl libeggdbus-1-0 libck-
connector0 xfonts-75dpi spamc fgetty libio-zlib-perl xinit x11-session-utils
libfs6 xfonts-100dpi libhtml-form-perl libmozjs2d libhttp-negotiate-perl
libpam-ck-connector libencode-locale-perl libhtml-tree-perl libhttp-cookies-
perl libhttp-message-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libnet-http-perl consolekit
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libterm-readline-perl-perl lighttpd spawn-fcgi
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2.2-common bind9 bsd-mailx dmsetup
e2fsprogs eject exim4 exim4-base exim4-daemon-heavy ftp git-daemon-run git-svn
grub grub-common grub-pc hal iceweasel initramfs-tools initscripts
libapache2-mod-php5 libdevmapper1.02.1 libemail-valid-perl libio-socket-ssl-
perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libwww-perl mailman
mailx munin-node nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-basic nagios-plugins-standard
nagios3-cgi nagios3-common netbase nfs-common nfs-kernel-server ntp ntpdate
openssh-server pidentd postgresql-common procps qpopper runit spamassassin
squid sysvinit telnet udev util-linux vsftpd xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-
core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-
synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-
apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-geode
xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-intel
xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-
rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-
savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-
video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-
video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-
video-voodoo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libterm-readline-perl-perl lighttpd spawn-fcgi
The following packages will be upgraded:
base-files
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
e2fsprogs util-linux (due to e2fsprogs) sysvinit initscripts (due to
sysvinit)
1 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 93 to remove and 24 not upgraded.
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Is the base-files upgrade wanting to switch to upstart vice sysvinit? If so, is
there a guide on how to do this?
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