Re: flubber and grubber down; wiki

[Samuel Thibault]

Thomas Schwinge, le Sun 05 Aug 2012 14:05:10 +0200, a écrit :
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:52:28 +0200, I wrote:
> > Two days ago, zenhost (the Xen dom0 hosting flubber, grubber, snubber)
> > rebooted, and now the root file systems of flubber and grubber are
> > sufficiently damaged that they don't boot anymore (hangs after starting
> > the exec server, init would be next).  [...]
> > 
> > I'll re-install flubber and grubber in the next days -- most steps of
> > that are scripted.  (Assuming this still works; it's been two years.)
> 
> Turns out, »in the next days« is now, however:
> 
>     Unpacking util-linux (from .../util-linux_2.20.1-5.1_hurd-i386.deb) ...
>     Can't exec "insserv": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/update-rc.d 
> line 391.
>     update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
>     dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.20.1-5.1_hurd-i386.deb (--unpack):
>      subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 255
>     Errors were encountered while processing:
>      /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.20.1-5.1_hurd-i386.deb
> 
> Help?

This is odd: don't you have the insserv package installed? It's supposed
to be a dependency of the sysv-rc package. Perhaps it's simply the
upgrade path that you had which didn't get the dependency right.

Samuel