Package: general Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation? - Fresh install of debian 7 netinst. Issue apt-get install command in root terminal which works as expected with this output. -- terminal output: apt-get install bootchart pybootchartgui Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: hp-ppd hyphen-en-us libfs6 x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils xinit Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: acct bootchart-view libcommons-cli-java libcommons-lang-java makedev Suggested packages: gqview librsvg2-bin gimp-svg libcommons-lang-java-doc The following packages will be REMOVED: alsa-base bluez brasero console-setup console-setup-linux cryptsetup-bin cups dmsetup e2fsprogs eject gdm3 gnome gnome-applets gnome-bluetooth gnome-core gnome-disk-utility gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver gnome-session gnome-session-bin gnome-session-fallback gnome-shell gnome-shell-extensions gnome-sushi gnome-user-share grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-daemons hamster-applet hplip iceweasel ifupdown initramfs-tools initscripts keyboard-configuration libbonoboui2-0 libcanberra-pulse libcryptsetup4 libdevmapper-event1.02.1 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgdu0 libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0 liblvm2app2.2 libparted0debian1 linux-base linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 linux-image-amd64 media-player-info nautilus nautilus-sendto network-manager network-manager-gnome nfs-common ppp printer-driver-gutenprint printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-postscript-hp printer-driver-splix procps pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-x11 python-gnome2 rhythmbox rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder rhythmbox-plugins rpcbind rsyslog sane-utils simple-scan sysvinit task-desktop task-gnome-desktop task-print-server tracker-miner-fs udev udisks upower util-linux util-linux-locales virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 wpasupplicant xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo The following NEW packages will be installed: acct bootchart bootchart-view libcommons-cli-java libcommons-lang-java makedev pybootchartgui WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! e2fsprogs util-linux (due to e2fsprogs) sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 125 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 732 kB of archives. After this operation, 241 MB disk space will be freed. You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? - Within the terminal, the only effective method was to abort the installation. - Installing using synaptic package manager did not cause this issue * What was the outcome of this action? - If proceeding with the install, it renders the system unbootable * What outcome did you expect instead? - bootchart and pybootchartgui installed to determine any boot process bottlenecks. *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131018063843.8739.99456.reportbug@tuckdeb