Be careful not to upgrade to initscripts 2.88dsf-21 or 2.88dsf-22 is you want to play safe. They can cause your filesystem to be heavily trashed, at least it did for me (on two kvm instances, twice on one of them!):
In an ssh window: (second time, first with -21!) Preparing to replace sysvinit 2.88dsf-21 (using .../sysvinit_2.88dsf-22_hurd-i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sysvinit ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up sysvinit (2.88dsf-22) ... sysvinit: creating /run/initctl sysvinit: restarting...init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl .init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl .init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl .init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl .init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl .init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl . init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl .init: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl failed. (Reading database ... 5% ... On the console: (repeating forever until the kvm process is killed) /etc/hurd/runsystem.gnu: line 162: 24115 Killed $(SHELL) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
