Comment 4 for bug 424793

The situation is somewhat strange. /etc/init.d/rsyslog and /etc/init.d/sysklogd both exist, but dpkg -l lists the corresponding packages as "rc" in the first two columns.

I am happy to help debugging/testing this. Should I install one of the packages manually to see whether that makes the crash go away? Or should I do nothing to see whether the packaging infrastructure will automatically do the right thing? (It's not clear to me whether I caused this situation myself. If so then I can't expect the packaging infrastructure to fix it obviously.)

I installed slapd manually, and it seems to have an (indirect) dependency on syslog.

I don't recall any other recent action that might have an influence on this.