I installed some ham radio programs and accidentally also installed the rspf daemon. Now the next time I booted my machine, it would get stuck/hung starting rspfd and whatever I do, I couldn't get to the login prompt.
Pressing Ctrl-C when init started didn't help. So, I booted with an old 2.2 kernel I had on my grub menu list. It didn't have proc support and failed to load lots of modules including this rspfd and I got a single user root prompt, mounted the root partion readonly. I remounted it rw and ran update-rc.d to remove rspfd but at next reboot it's again there and hung the machine. Running apt-get remogve --purge or dpkg -r didn't help either. They both gave errors and said they can't remove rspfd. So, I listed the files rspfd had installed with dpkg -L and remove each of them manually. There was nothing else I could have done I think. But now while running apt-get or dpkg, I always get the error about not able to configure rspfd. It's irritating, tho doesn't cause any problems. How do I get rid of this message eveytime I install anything? Secondly, where would I get to read about the init process in debian? I mean like the update-rc.d thing. Which is the file that debian uses to start things at startup other than /etc/rc.boot? Like the rc.local file in RH/Mandrake? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
