On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:14:58AM -0400, Russell Warren wrote: > I've recently done a small dist-upgrade on 7.1/wheezy that failed > ([1]https://dpaste.de/iVgQo/raw/) and I can now no longer do a reboot or > halt. When I try, I get this error: > shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl > init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl > See this attempt at shutdown and halt: [2]https://dpaste.de/N1tch/raw/ > Is this a known issue, or does anyone know how to fix this? I'm stumped > so far. Ow. Uninstalling the running init is likely to cause problems. If possible, install upstart and sysvinit alongside each other... No, wait. upstart conflicts with sysvinit. I would suggest that, unless you meant to switch inits, you re-install upstart (which will remove sysvinit again). If you ARE trying to switch inits, you may be on your own :/
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