<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi, I upgraded to dapper and think I found the reason why my music is not working anymore: no S50alsa-utils in /etc/rcS.d/ !! Also not in another /etc/rc[0-6].d/ script. root@indra-ubuntu:/etc# find . -name *alsa-utils* -print ./init.d/alsa-utils ./rc0.d/K50alsa-utils ./rc6.d/K50alsa-utils <A HREF="mailto:root@indra-ubuntu">root@indra-ubuntu</A>:/etc# Ergo, mixer settings are not restored at boot and no sound can be heard since the default is....mute everything. I forgot if I had alsaconf installed, but now its gone. I still have alsactl and alsamixer though. Its possible that by removing that alsaconf package these changes took place, I do not know. However: why does an upgrade remove (instead of replace) packages? Maybe because: dependencies got broken and instead of also upgrading the broken packages which are included by default in the base, they are "left to the user" to install after the upgrade. This is not so user-friendly I must say. Better would be: when packages are removed because of broken dependencies, present them to the user with the option to try to reinstall them after the upgrade. I had to reinstall (because the packages were gone): eclipse openoffice I had to redefine some panel items etc. Apart from these minor issues, upgrading was painless. Regards, Indra Polak </BODY> </HTML>