I'm not sure if this is still the same problem... but this stuff broke concurrently as the sysvinit problem and share some aspect.
I tried to redo everything as carefully as I could. Examined all the logs, reinstall/reconfigure all the packages as stated in sysvinit/NEWS.Debian.gz Modules related to the not working services are loaded. Anyway acpid, fam, powersaved, dbus are not working. All links in /etc/rc* seems to be there. Starting them manually seems to work but it is a bit annoying since due to some problem hcid segfault[*] on exit and I can't restart consistently dbus. Since it seems that not all services in dbus are missing restart is needed cos start will fail. There is a antefact that may be related. For other bugs in initramfs I had to generate my own initrd. During install of sysvinit update-initramfs complained that the initram was altered and it couldn't generate a new one. I did it manually and saved the original too. I got 2 messages that could help to get a clue on the problem: - Starting powermanagement... Cannot access /var/run/acpid.socket may be due to the fact that acpid is not running - .. hotplug events dispatcher... another udev daemon already running unlinking rc*/udev and generating another initrd fix the second error but still dbus, acpid, powernowd and fam don't start automatically. [*] this was an old problem but never affected proper operation previously cos I didn't have to restart dbus Sep 11 10:43:42 localhost kernel: hcid[5876]: segfault at 0000000000000038 rip 00000000004188f2 rsp 00007fff7da99530 error 4 -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]