Jean-Baptiste, thanks a lot for the review and help. The original issue is now gone, but there is a troublesome wake still that I need some advice on.
sysv-rc was indeed an etchnhalf version, and a few other scattered-about pieces were from etchnhalf as well. I got to pick up some stuff from etch when trying to port a simple C++ program from Debian 2.2.5 to Ubuntu 8.04; that program was using ncurses and I needed to look for a version that would work with my program. I failed on that one, partly to insufficient effort on my end, I suppose. For the current issue, I now have forced sysv-rc back to Ubuntu as suggested, and have unchecked etch as a source for software updates. A subsequent 21 updates from Ubuntu were offered, which ended up installing without complaint, and the old complaints about acpid, cron and pulseaudio are gone. PROBLEM: Now Ubuntu is telling me that the system needs to be rebooted, offers the restart icon in the title bar, and takes the short way around to the login screen when I click that icon. What is really annoying is that even if I go separately and ask for a shutdown, the same short-cut to the login screen is offered instead. I have aborted that loop after close to a dozen turns by powering off the computer. Are there any options left short of breaking out my installation CD and reinstalling 8.04.2 over the carcass (which is 8.04.3 due to being current with the updates)? I have a Windows XP installation on the same machine (dual boot governed by grub) where I can backup the "personal" stuff that I have on the Ubuntu side, making a reinstall tolerable. Cheers, Jochen -- package ubuntu-standard 1.102 failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/504500 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
