Comment 4 for bug 219944
Revision history for this message
| Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote Re: required packages are not installed by default as they become available | #4 |
© 2004
Canonical Ltd.
•
Terms of use
•
Data privacy
•
Contact Launchpad Support
•
Blog
•
Careers
•
System status
•
0e1f616
(Get the code!)
It's been a while, but I am sure, it would be relatively easy to reproduce this problem anytime. Let me first say that I understand this may not be what some consider a bug. After all, I removed ubuntu-minimal and some would argue that I am on my own after that. OK, understood. The problem is that ubuntu-minimal is not so minimal. I believe we should expend some energy to make ubuntu behave better even under such circumstances.
Here is what I believe to have happened. I have a vserver in a remote data center for some years now. Admin is done completely over ssh, there is no X. Space was at a premium and ubuntu-minimal pulled in several hundred MB of packages I did not really need (I believe hardware-detection was a big "offender"). I started out with a dapper install provided by the data center. I am almost sure I upgraded it all the way to gutsy. The tool I use for that is plain aptitude. The vserver ran fine all the time for several months and no reboot was necessary.
Some time in the past, ubuntu switched from sysvinit to upstart. I believe sysvinit was removed at some point. ubuntu-minimal which was supposed to pull in upstart was not installed, so that did not happen. The vserver of course continued to run just fine for several more months. Until that day when the datacenter had to reboot the real server and my vserver did not come back up because it was missing the startup scripts.