Same problem for me. I use a 64-bit-Ubuntu and updated from 7.10 to 8.4 and
then directly to 8.10. Synaptics tells me, it want to install sysvinit ant to
remove startup-tasks, system-services, ubuntu-minimal, upstart,
upstart-comapt-sysv and upstart-logd. The update-manager also seems to want
upstart has been made Essential, this should correct the problem -- if
not, this becomes a bug in synaptic as there's no reason for it to try
and install sysvinit again.
** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
Status:
Do you still have sysvinit installed?
If you upgrade sysvinit (maybe just aptitude download sysvinit and
dpkg -i) does it then behave itself when you try and update (ie. remove
sysvinit and install upstart instead)
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Sysvinit wants to install and replace upstart
No, I haven't sysvinit still installed. When I upgrade sysvinit ubuntu-
minimal package is uninstalled, and when I try to reinstall it, sysvinit
is deleted and upstart packages installed. Before all this, I could see
ubuntu-minimal new version (1.19) but it didn't upgrade automatically.
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The problem is : now that I forced the update of ubuntu-minimal from
1.18 version to 1.19 (which provoked the installation of upstart
packages), each time I try to automatically update my packages, ubuntu-
minimal and upstart packages are selected for uninstall, and sysvinit
for install.
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