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

[NoOp]

On 12/24/2009 12:05 PM, 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?

I tend to suspect that your upgrade didn't complete correctly. Have a
look at /var/log/dist-upgrade and see if you can spot anything there.
Other than that, I'd recommend that you run the standard:

$ apt-get install -f
etc.