Trouble with apt

[Damien Hull]

I removed runit. It works! No more error message. Thanks!

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 11:37 -0800, Damien Hull wrote:
>   
>> I think something broke when I tried installing a package. 
>>     
>
> Or it was already broken before.
>
>   
>> I can install 
>> software but I get an error message every time. The following info was 
>> taken after I installed xchat-gnome.
>>
>>
>>     Reading package lists... Done
>>     Building dependency tree      
>>     Reading state information... Done
>>     The following extra packages will be installed:
>>       xchat-gnome-common
>>     The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>       xchat-gnome xchat-gnome-common
>>     0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>     1 not fully installed or removed.
>>     Need to get 589kB of archives.
>>     After unpacking 5190kB of additional disk space will be used.
>>     Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>>     Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main xchat-gnome-common
>>     1:0.18-0ubuntu3 [268kB]
>>     Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main xchat-gnome
>>     1:0.18-0ubuntu3 [321kB]
>>     Fetched 589kB in 5s (104kB/s)             
>>     Selecting previously deselected package xchat-gnome-common.
>>     (Reading database ... 98893 files and directories currently installed.)
>>     Unpacking xchat-gnome-common (from
>>     .../xchat-gnome-common_1%3a0.18-0ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
>>     Selecting previously deselected package xchat-gnome.
>>     Unpacking xchat-gnome (from
>>     .../xchat-gnome_1%3a0.18-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
>>     
>
> All fine until here.
>
>   
>>     Setting up runit (1.6.0-1) ...
>>     
>
> This is weird. Where does runit suddenly come from? It did not show up
> when apt-get (or aptitude?) announced which packages it would install.
> runit comes from the universe repo and while I am not familiar with it,
> the package description shows that it is a special init system.
> Installing it is (a) not required, and (b) it is certainly not simple to
> install and will require quite substantial changes to Ubuntu, at least
> in the init (boot) system
>
>   
>>     grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
>>     grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
>>     
>
> Yeah, because Ubuntu uses Upstart as the init system, which does not
> need an /etc/inittab.
>
>   
>>     Adding SV inittab entry...
>>     cp: cannot stat `/etc/inittab': No such file or directory
>>     dpkg: error processing runit (--configure):
>>      subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>     Setting up xchat-gnome-common (1:0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
>>
>>     Setting up xchat-gnome (1:0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
>>
>>     Errors were encountered while processing:
>>      runit
>>     E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>     
>
> It quite clearly seems to say that the problem is with runit. I'd try
> uninstalling it (unless you installed it on purpose and would not be
> able to boot without it)
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