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apt-get update; apt-get upgrade marks 27 packages, but it fails when it tries to configure initscripts. apt-get install -f does not work nor does dpkg --configure initscripts. I also try running insserv alone and even that fails. The error message I keep seeing is...
Code:
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-55.3) ...
insserv: FATAL: service rpcbind is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service nfs-common
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package initscripts (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initscripts
that version of initscripts is in experimental. Can you provide more information about your setup, including what version of innserv you have?
Evo2.
ya know, there is no -v/V option to tell you the version with insserv? Someone of their dev team must've been napping that day. 1.16.0-5 from what I can tell it says it's experimental, but I should be using the testing repository. The only experimental I want to use is for the nvidia drivers.
I am still having this issue. Initscripts and insserv fail to complete installation and configuration. I tried reinstalling them but they still error out. Now other pacakges are having issues and need certian components upgraded, but I can't upgrade them with initscripts broken. Neither fixing broken via Synaptic, nor "apt-get -f install" rectifies the problem.
I am still having this issue. Initscripts and insserv fail to complete installation and configuration. I tried reinstalling them but they still error out. Now other pacakges are having issues and need certian components upgraded, but I can't upgrade them with initscripts broken. Neither fixing broken via Synaptic, nor "apt-get -f install" rectifies the problem.
Thoughts?
We need more information. Please post the output of:
root@hal9000:/etc/init.d# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
linux-image-3.13-1-amd64
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 883 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-55.3) ...
insserv: FATAL: service rpcbind is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service nfs-common
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package initscripts (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initscripts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@hal9000:/etc/init.d#
root@hal9000:/etc/init.d# dpkg -l initscripts insserv
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-======================-================-================-=================================================
pF initscripts 2.88dsf-55.3 amd64 scripts for initializing and shutting down the sy
ii insserv 1.16.0-5 amd64 boot sequence organizer using LSB init.d script d
root@hal9000:/etc/init.d#
Code:
root@hal9000:/etc/init.d# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb ftp://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
# deb-src ftp://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ testing contrib non-free main
# deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates non-free contrib main
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates non-free contrib main
# deb ftp://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free
# deb-src ftp://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free
# deb ftp://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
# deb-src ftp://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
# deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org/ testing main non-free
deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing contrib non-free main
deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates non-free contrib main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates non-free contrib main
deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates non-free contrib main
deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates non-free contrib main
# deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
# deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org/ testing main non-free
# deb ftp://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ sid contrib non-free main
# deb-src ftp://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ sid contrib non-free main
root@hal9000:/etc/init.d#
it looks like you may be able to get this to work by removing or reinstalling rpcbind. Are you actually running an nfs server? If not try purging rcpbind and nfs-common. Eg
Code:
dpkg purge rcpbind nfs-common
After that you should seriously consider getting rid of any packages from experimental that are on your system.
it looks like you may be able to get this to work by removing or reinstalling rpcbind. Are you actually running an nfs server? If not try purging rcpbind and nfs-common. Eg
Code:
dpkg purge rcpbind nfs-common
After that you should seriously consider getting rid of any packages from experimental that are on your system.
Evo2.
Well you gave me a significant clue, but this is what I wound up doing to fix it....
it looks like you may be able to get this to work by removing or reinstalling rpcbind. Are you actually running an nfs server? If not try purging rcpbind and nfs-common. Eg
Code:
dpkg purge rcpbind nfs-common
After that you should seriously consider getting rid of any packages from experimental that are on your system.
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