I'm running Etch (with a handful of packages from Sid) on my desktop PC,
connected to the internet by a cable modem.
Following the recent upgrades to Gnome 2.12 and KDE 3.5, I had about 40
packages that were being held back by aptitude. I set about clearing
these manually, and one of the changes I made was to replace dbus-1 with
dbus.
Everything seemed to go OK and all the held packages have now been
upgraded. However, when I boot up the PC it now hangs part way through
the boot, at the following point (some unimportant details omitted,
there may also be some typoes as I can't read my own writing!):
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 [...]
DHCPACK from 10.40.0.1
Starting the Firestarter firewall[...]
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v.0.30
ipconntrack version 2.4 (4027 buckets, 32216 max) - 232 bytes per
conntrack due
bound to 80.x.xxx.x -- renewal in 82520 seconds
At this point nothing else happens until I press Ctrl+C, at which point
the boot continues with "Starting portmap daemon" and then the computer
boots up normally. I assume hitting Ctrl+C means that one of the
start-up scripts isn't completing execution, but I haven't noticed
anything not working so far.
When I replaced dbus-1 with dbus, aptitude removed several packages due
to missing dependencies (perhaps I should have looked into these more
carefully before hitting "g", but it was late and I was tired...). These
are listed as follows in /var/log/aptitude:
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] dbus-1
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] dbus-glib-1
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] libhal-storage0
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] libhal0
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] libnautilus-burn0
[REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] libnautilus-burn1
Finally, in case it's relevant, here are the contents of /etc/rc2.d:
S10sysklogd S20exim4 S20resmgr S89atd
S11klogd S20firestarter S20snort S89cron
S14ppp S20inetd S20ssh S90binfmt-support
S18portmap S20lpd S21fam S99gdm
S19mysql-ndb-mgm S20makedev S21mysql-ndb S99numlock
S20cupsys S20mysql S21nfs-common S99rmnologin
S20dbus S20mzscheme S25bluetooth S99stop-bootlogd
S20dirmngr S20psad S89anacron
Any suggestions gratefully received!
Thanks,
John
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