Something similar happened last time I upgraded init -- to Bruce's ELF version.
Shouldn't packages doing stuff like that do some postinst _after_ rebooting the machine? They could just add an rc file that removes itself once it executes. Thanks, Jeff Helmut Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a small problem with the new sysvinit (2.58-1) suite. Once you have > installed it, you can't shutdown/reboot/halt the system as these use a > different way of communicating than the 2.57* init (a FIFO, no longer a file). > So please make copies of the old init,shutdown, halt and reboot programs and > reboot right after installing sysvinit 2.58. After rebooting, you can > delete the old files.