I have two desktops running hardy. One never experienced this. I believe that the problem on the other one started because I had to downgrade unison (unison had to match the version on the debian server). At some point during my fiddling the automatic update application began complaining about several packages. I was able to eliminate most of those except initscripts. At this point I seemed to be trapped in a set of circular dependencies. I let it go for awhile and just applied the updates that I could.
I am relatively new to the Ubuntu/debian world ( I used redhat for a few years.) and am mostly an end user. Just before filing that bug report I decided to try one more time to clean up this problem with initscripts. I removed both upstart-compat-sysv and initscripts using synaptic. Some safety feature kicked-in and installed the system v utilities. At this point I could not do anything without getting some frightening messages from the system about destroying the ability to have the things in init.d run. If I had a better knowledge of what was really going on, I could have probably done a force install and got rid of the problems. As it was I was able to return the system to a functional state by using the deb installer to reinstall initscripts and upstart-compat-sysv. I still have the complaints from update about initscripts so apparently its database is corrupt or I have some issue with incompatible packages. I filed the bug-report because as I wrote synaptic claims a dependency which is not listed in the dependencies on the Ubuntu package site (hardy). Dale Alspach -- Incorrect dependency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254015 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
