Re: flubber and grubber down; wiki

[Samuel Thibault]

Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 08 Aug 2012 23:56:34 +0200, a écrit :
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 23:30:16 +0200, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This is with using crosshurd, I should perhaps have told.  Simply a
> missing dependency somewhere?

Possibly, should be checked for.

Samuel