Good question! I upgraded using aptitude and if I press 'r' on the initscripts package the see the reverse dependencies I get the following list: sysvinit, bootchart, multipath-tools
None of them are installed so aptitude happily removed initscripts. On the other hand: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache rdepends initscripts initscripts Reverse Depends: sysvinit multipath-tools e2fsprogs bootchart And e2fsprogs is surely installed... But "sudo dpkg -r initscripts" happily removes initscripts as well... Let's see: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show e2fsprogs | grep initscripts Conflicts: dump (<< 0.4b4-4), quota (<< 1.55-8.1), initscripts (<< 2.85-4), sysvinit (<< 2.85-4) So I think the problem is that nothing depends on the package. Probably upstart-compat-sysv should depend on it. -- Fails to boot if initscripts is not installed https://launchpad.net/bugs/58979 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
