On 2011-12-14 21:10 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:36:50PM -0600, Brian Paterni wrote: >> The new sysv packages in experimental look like they are breaking my system. > > Sorry to hear that. Knowing what went wrong here would help > correct it. I'm running it without issues, but that's not > to say your system is not different in some way. > >> reboot via # shutdown -r now, or # shutdown -h now, do not work, and the only >> way to reboot my machine is with magic-sysrq-b or hard reset. >> >> When the machine comes up again, login is displayed way too early (~3 seconds >> after grub), and once I login, the system seems to be severly broken... >> nothing besides root is mounted, hostname is not displayed, network has not >> been brought up, etc... > > When you upgraded the packages, did you install all of > sysvinit, sysvinit-utils, sysv-rc and initscripts, or > just a subset?
I'm having the same problem after upgrading all four packages, and it disappeared after downgrading sysvinit-utils to the version in unstable. Symptoms: On entering runlevel 6, sulogin was spawned, no way out except with sysrq keys. After a reboot, none of the initscripts had run when runlevel 2 was entered. HTH, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org