Upgrade 9.04 -> 9.10 seems to have broken all init.d scripts

[Lou Katz]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:05:05PM -0800, Lou Katz wrote:
> I recently used upgrade manager to upgrade Xubuntu 9.04 to Xubuntu 9.10. The first thing I noticed
> was that the network wasn't turned on. Being in a rush, I just stuck some code in rc.local to turn
> it on, but that didn't work either, so on logging in I ran the rc.local script by hand. Other things
> didn't seem quite right either (ntp wasn't running). Nothing that I have tried seems to make these
> come up at boot time, and I cannot find ANY log messages about these scripts. In fact, extra output
> from the scripts doesn't seem to happen.
> 
> I finally deduced that none of the scripts were being run. Any hints on how to fix this?
> 
> Thanks

My system has lots of stuff installed, and worked just fine at 9.04. Does anyone know how to find out
and remedy why none of the init scripts are now being run under 9.10? Doing a fresh install is not
a viable option at this time.


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