Package: acpid Version: 1.0.6-7 Severity: important After an update, install of acpid fails.
I try to fix that by forcing purge and new install without success. I try to get help to solve that on irc.debian.org without success. You'll find some information below on outputs of aptitude : 1.aptitude reinstall acpid 2.Reading package lists... Done 3.Building dependency tree 4.Reading state information... Done 5.Reading extended state information 6.Initializing package states... Done 7.Reading task descriptions... Done 8.The following packages will be REINSTALLED: 9.acpid 10. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. 11. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. 12. Writing extended state information... Done 13. Setting up acpid (1.0.6-7)... 14. System startup links for /etc/init.d/acpid already exist. 15. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. 16. Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method. 17. invoke-rc.d:initscript acpid, action "start" failed. 18. dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure): 19. subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 20. Errors were encountered while processing: 21. acpid 22. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 23. A package failed to install. Trying to recover: 24. Setting up acpid (1.0.6-7)... 25. System startup links for /etc/init.d/acpid already exist. 26. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. 27. Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method. 28.invoke-rc.d:initscript acpid, action "start" failed. 29.dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure): 30.subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 31. Errors were encountered while processing: 32. acpid 33. Reading package lists... Done 34. Building dependency tree 35. Reading state information... Done 36. Reading extended state information 37. Initializing package states... Done 38. Reading task descriptions... Done 39. 40. /etc/init.d/acpid restart 41. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. 42. Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method. 43. 44. lsmod|grep acpi 45. acpi_cpufreq 14096 1 46. freq_table 9728 3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand 47. processor 49388 4 acpi_cpufreq,thermal Best regards, Guillaume JAOUEN. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages acpid depends on: ii libc6 2.7-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii sysv-rc 2.86.ds1-56 System-V-like runlevel change mech acpid recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]