On Jo, 21 nov 13, 15:22:39, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Somehow, I seem to have a circular initscript dependency. > It seems to be complaining about the package mediatomb; furthemore, the > problem first appeared shortly after I installed mediatomb. > I tried uninstalling mediatomb, but it gets nowhere, because aptitude > balks upon detecting the circular dependency. > > I ran > > aptitude upgrade | tee mediatomb-problem > > Here's the relevant message, out of all the stuff it produces: > > insserv: There is a loop between service mediatomb and modutils if stopped > insserv: loop involving service modutils at depth 2 > insserv: loop involving service mediatomb at depth 1 > insserv: Stopping modutils depends on mediatomb and therefore on system > facility `$all' which can not be true! > insserv: exiting now without changing boot order! > update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
You have a lot of cruft on your system. I'd try
aptitude search ~c
and if the list looks reasonable then follow-up with
aptitude purge ~c
If you still have problems you can use 'dpkg -S' to find other
initscripts not belonging to any installed packages and remove them.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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