Re: [PLUG] After dist_upgrade, kubuntu system won't boot

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:19 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > grep -r 'var\.run' /etc 2>/dev/null > foofile
> >
> > and see what's in foofile, what package the file belongs to, what
> > release the the package belongs to, etc.  
> 
> Zero byte empty file (though it seemed to take a lot of disc activity to 
> create it. 

then i'm lost where that rmdir/mkdir is coming from.  in your original
post i saw an "rmdiir", if that was literally what it said, then perhaps
grepping for that?

> > in fact, you might want to try 
> > out apt-show-versions (iirc), which with a little grepping can find any
> > leftover packages, which you should probably purge.
> 
> Will deborphan do it?

deborphan will do something similar, though it'll produce more output
(it will find "leaf node" packages) and lead you away from what you
really want to do, which is remove (non|pre)-dapper software.  to find
packages on your system which aren't from dapper, try something like:

apt-show-versions | grep -v /dapper

and remove just about anything that you find that might have something
to do with the problem (or post the list if you're not sure).

otherwise (or additionally), doing an 

ls -l /etc/rc[S2].d

would be something to take a look at.

	sean

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