Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Bastian Venthur]
>> Looks like there is still something left to do for the user after this
>> step. Eg, on my machine KDM did not start up automatically anymore, as
>> well as WLAN. Those are two things I encountered directly and are
>> probably easy to fix, but I'm qu
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> sed -n "/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16/,/installed sysvinit
> 2.86.ds1-18/p" /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '/ upgrade / { print $4 } /
> installed / { print $5 }' | sort -u
But this script only works when the user installed 2.86.ds1-16. In my
case, I upgraded from 2.86
[Kevin Mark]
> I thought that 'reinstall' seems very time consuming and thought
> that there may be a diffent way to do it. Would this work for
> (most|all)? cheers,
Yes, I believe so. So the latest incarnation of the script to fix
this problem uses this apporach. It is in sysv-rc version
2.86.
[Bastian Venthur]
> Looks like there is still something left to do for the user after this
> step. Eg, on my machine KDM did not start up automatically anymore, as
> well as WLAN. Those are two things I encountered directly and are
> probably easy to fix, but I'm quite uncertain if there is someth
Hi Petter,
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:22:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the
> update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it
> would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks
> existed
Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time
to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the
dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file
before this morning.
sed -n "/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16/,/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-18/p"
[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> A quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in
> /etc/init.d/.
This way proved to be too quick, trying to reinstall removed but not
purged packages with init.d scripts left behind in /etc/init.d/. I
recommend using something like this instead, to only rei
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Those with packages being broken from this bug can fix it by using
> 'apt-get --reinstall install package' on the affected packages. A
> quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in
> /etc/init.d/.
>
> for p in `dpkg -S /etc/init.d/*|cut -d: -f1|so
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