severity 386661 important merge 386649 386661 thanks [Olaf van der Spek] > Isn't it possible to just run the postinst scripts of these packages again?
Probably, but I did not want to bypass dpkg. Perhaps it is a good idea in this case, to avoid having to pull in new versions of the packages. Something along these lines might work: #!/bin/sh # Set to true to bypass dpkg and run postinst directly. bypass=false if [ -f /var/log/dpkg.log ] ; then packages="`sed -n "/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16/,/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-18/p" /var/log/dpkg.log | awk '/ upgrade / { print $4 } / installed / { print $5 }' | sort -u`" else packages="`dpkg -S /etc/init.d/*|cut -d: -f1|sort -u`" fi for p in $packages ; do # Make sure it is installed if dpkg --get-selections $p | grep -qw install ; then # Only fix packages with init.d scripts if dpkg -L $p | grep -q /etc/init.d/ ; then brokenpackages="$brokenpackages $p" fi fi done if [ true = $bypass ] ; then for p in $brokenpackages ; do echo "Running package $p postinst" /var/lib/dpkg/info/$p.postinst configure done else echo echo "**** Reinstalling these packages ****" echo " $brokenpackages" echo apt-get --reinstall -u install $brokenpackages fi > Just wondering, isn't Bcc supposed to be invisible? Yeah. Bug in mutt on the machine where I read my email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]