I can no longer reproduce the situation. For two reasons: First: I just went to 8.10 yesterday.
Second: A week or two ago I backed out a few packages (ignoring the warning that it might break the system) and reinstalled them being very careful about the order and version. That removed the issue. If I recall correctly, what really caused the issue was that a debian etch version of a package had gotten installed as upgrade of an ubuntu package of the same name. The mix of debian and ubuntu apparently got the system into dependency hell. I believe that the critical step was to remove sysv-rc. So probably the issue was at root my fault for having a debian repository in the list for a time. Unless someone else has had a similar issue, you can close this one. Dale Alspach -- upstart-compat-sysv trying to overwrite last.1.gz from sysvutils https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254015 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
