On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 02:53:15PM +0200, nicolas.patr...@gmail.com wrote: > Le 04/09/2012 23:45:30, Roger Leigh a écrit : > > > So the issue here is that all of the scripts causing the > > "missing LSB tags and overrides" warning are obsolete and broken. > > I would suggest using "dpkg -S /etc/init.d/$file" to see which > > package > > they belong to, and then purge them if they are obsolete (check > > with dpkg -s first to see if it's conffiles-only). xfree86-common > > is an obviously ancient script; all of the rest are as well--all > > of the current scripts will have LSB tags, and they do not, so there > > should be no negative consequences in removing them. > > > Once you've purged the truly broken ones, try upgrading or installing > > initscripts again, and you should then have it succeed. Given that > > only xfree86-common resulted in an error, purging it may be > > sufficient > > (though I would highly recommend taking the time to check and remove > > the others). > > aptitude did not even let me purge a package, I had to remove the files > by hand.
I would have suggested using "dpkg --purge" for this. > It worked anyway, but what replaces now initrd? initramfs-tools? I'm not sure to be honest, what did the initscript do, and which package did it belong to? It's not been in any package for a long time, so whatever it was, it's obsolete and replaced by something. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org