Re: Failed dist-upgrade of 7.1/wheezy and can't reboot/halt (sysvinit related)

2013-07-31 Thread Russell Warren
> > Ow. Uninstalling the running init is likely to cause problems. If > possible, install upstart and sysvinit alongside each other... No, wait. > upstart conflicts with sysvinit. > > I would suggest that, unless you meant to switch inits, you re-install > upstart (which will remove sysvinit again)

Failed dist-upgrade of 7.1/wheezy and can't reboot/halt (sysvinit related)

2013-07-31 Thread Russell Warren
I've recently done a small dist-upgrade on 7.1/wheezy that failed ( https://dpaste.de/iVgQo/raw/) and I can now no longer do a reboot or halt. When I try, I get this error: shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/in