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

[Lou Katz]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 09:45:55PM +0100, Tom H 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?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Are the scripts that are not running from just one of the init-script
> directories? (/etc/event.d, /etc/init, /etc/init.d)

No - as far as I can tell, none run. And I can't find any logging info anywhere to see what is wrong.

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