Package: insserv Version: 1.10.0-1 Severity: important Running dpkg-reconfigure insserv, it failed and complained about obsolete init scripts left behind: makedev, procps.sh, sudo and xserver-xorg. Alright, filed bug reports against these four packages, removed the conffiles and symlinks manually, reinstalled the packages and ran dpkg-reconfigure insserv again.
This time it failed with the short error message: error: Unable to enable dependency based boot system. I attached the log file. Hopefully it helps. Cheers, Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.12 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages insserv depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.17 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-47 System-V-like runlevel change mech insserv recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * insserv/enable: true
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K11anacron insserv: Loading /usr/share/insserv/overrides/anacron insserv: Loading S48cryptdisks insserv: Loading K25powersaved insserv: Loading K19postgresql-8.2 insserv: Loading K20virtualbox-ose insserv: Loading K16hal insserv: Loading K20cupsys insserv: Loading S15wpa-ifupdown insserv: Loading S36ifupdown insserv: Loading K20cpufrequtils insserv: Loading K63mountoverflowtmp insserv: Loading K89atd insserv: Loading S59cryptdisks-early insserv: Loading K16avahi-daemon insserv: Loading S60umountroot insserv: Loading S30checkfs.sh insserv: Loading S55urandom insserv: Loading S38pppd-dns insserv: script pppd-dns could be broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: Missing entry for Required-Stop: please add even if empty. insserv: Loading S44nfs-common insserv: Loading S26cryptdisks-early insserv: Loading S48console-screen.sh insserv: Loading S18ifupdown-clean insserv: Loading S07hdparm insserv: Loading S01glibc.sh insserv: Loading S34fuse insserv: Loading S05bootlogd insserv: Loading 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Loading udev insserv: Loading slapd insserv: Loading smartmontools insserv: Loading /usr/share/insserv/overrides/smartmontools insserv: Loading atd insserv: Loading umountnfs.sh insserv: Loading alsa-utils insserv: Loading virtualbox-ose insserv: Loading anacron insserv: Loading /usr/share/insserv/overrides/anacron insserv: Loading acpid insserv: Loading cpufrequtils insserv: Loading udev-mtab insserv: Loading capiutils insserv: warning: script 'capiutils' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: Loading rc.local insserv: Loading hwclockfirst.sh insserv: Loading mtab.sh insserv: Loading mountall-bootclean.sh insserv: Loading loadcpufreq insserv: Loading umountroot insserv: Loading hwclock.sh insserv: Loading avahi-daemon insserv: Loading mysql-ndb-mgm insserv: Loading console-setup insserv: Loading killprocs insserv: Loading hdparm insserv: Loading pppd-dns insserv: script pppd-dns could be broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: Missing entry for Required-Stop: please add even if empty. insserv: Loading bootlogd insserv: Loading cron insserv: Loading checkroot.sh insserv: Loading openvpn insserv: Loading cryptdisks insserv: Loading portmap insserv: Loading binfmt-support insserv: Loading cupsys insserv: Loading libnss-ldap insserv: warning: script 'libnss-ldap' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: Loading mountkernfs.sh insserv: Loading kdm insserv: Loading single insserv: Loading fuse insserv: Loading sendsigs insserv: Loading powersaved insserv: Loading dbus insserv: Loading x11-common insserv: Loading dhcdbd insserv: Loading mountnfs.sh insserv: Loading bootchart insserv: Loading samba insserv: Loading nfs-common insserv: Loading mountdevsubfs.sh insserv: Loading sl-modem-daemon insserv: Loading openbsd-inetd insserv: Loading networking insserv: Loading rsyslog insserv: Loading mountnfs-bootclean.sh insserv: Loading ifupdown insserv: Loading postgresql-8.2 insserv: Loading reboot insserv: Loading stop-bootlogd insserv: Loading keyboard-setup insserv: Loading network-manager insserv: Loading glibc.sh insserv: Loading console-screen.sh insserv: Loading urandom insserv: Loading network-manager-dispatcher insserv: Loading wpa-ifupdown insserv: Loading gdm insserv: script gdm: service x-display-manager already provided! insserv: Loading checkfs.sh insserv: Loading hostname.sh insserv: Loading bluetooth insserv: Loading mysql insserv: Loading hal insserv: Loading halt insserv: Loading gpm insserv: Loading rmnologin insserv: Loading exim4 insserv: Loading mysql-ndb insserv: Loading mountoverflowtmp insserv: Loading apache2 insserv: Loading pcmciautils insserv: Loading ssh insserv: Loading cryptdisks-early insserv: Loading mountall.sh insserv: Loading module-init-tools insserv: Loading keymap.sh insserv: Loading umountfs insserv: Loading partimaged insserv: Loading bootmisc.sh insserv: Loading ifupdown-clean insserv: Loading stop-bootchart insserv: warning: script 'stop-bootchart' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: Loading udftools insserv: There is a loop between service mysql and mysql-ndb-mgm insserv: loop involving service mysql-ndb-mgm at depth 3 insserv: loop involving service mysql at depth 2 insserv: loop involving service syslog at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service $syslog at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service sendsigs at depth 5 insserv: loop involving service umountnfs at depth 4 insserv: loop involving service nfs-common at depth 3 insserv: loop involving service hwclock at depth 2 insserv: loop involving service mountall at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service gdm at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service umountfs at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service acpid at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service $local_fs at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service portmap at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service $portmap at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service $time at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service networking at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service $remote_fs at depth 3 insserv: loop involving service mountnfs-bootclean at depth 2 insserv: loop involving service mountnfs at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service ifupdown at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service $network at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service $named at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service mountdevsubfs at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service checkfs at depth 4 insserv: loop involving service cryptdisks at depth 3 insserv: loop involving service checkroot at depth 2 insserv: loop involving service hdparm at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service udev at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service umountroot at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service ifupdown-clean at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service halt at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service reboot at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service mtab at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service udev-mtab at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service bootlogd at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service keymap at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service hostname at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service hwclockfirst at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service mountkernfs at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service glibc at depth 1 insserv: loop involving service keyboard-setup at depth 1 insserv: exiting now!