Hi Peter, > pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install cups > [sudo] password for peterm: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > cups is already the newest version.
So I think cups is installed OK, but two other packages have never finished installing properly so the system keeps on trying to finish those off every time you get it to do something... > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 2 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. > Setting up acpi-support (0.136.1) ... > update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/acpi-support missing LSB information > update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts> These two lines aren't related to the real problem. It would be nice if they fixed it under the bug report you mention but they've ranked it Low priority. A shame, because it means lots of people see the symptoms and waste time investigating. > update-rc.d: /etc/rc2.d: no such directory That's worrying at face value. > dpkg: error processing acpi-support (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > status 1 ...so acpi-support still isn't finished properly. Now to try winbind... > Setting up winbind (2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1) ... > update-rc.d: chdir /etc/rc1.d: No such file or directory Also worrying. > dpkg: error processing winbind (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > acpi-support > winbind > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ What's your output for these two commands? The output I've shown is from a 10.04 Ubuntu. $ cd /etc $ ls -ld init*.d rc*.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-08-25 11:49 init.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-13 14:56 rc0.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-13 20:52 rc1.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-13 20:52 rc2.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-13 20:52 rc3.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-13 20:52 rc4.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-13 20:52 rc5.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-13 14:56 rc6.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-13 20:52 rcS.d $ > And this is after taking out that line in Grub. If some of your /etc/rc?.d directories really are missing then I don't think the "lax" boot option is related. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ -- Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
