Comment 4 for bug 899795

I just discovered that there are a fair number of files in /etc/init that are stale, and do not belong to any dpkg. That is, dpkg -S /etc/init/whatever reports that there's no owning package. Judging from the timestamps on these files, they appear to belong to 11.04 or even earlier distros, and should have been removed/replaced, but weren't. This suggests that dpkg is getting confused about what's installed and/or install glitches cause dpkg to forget to run .postrm scripts. I will try to manually remove the orphaned files & see if this fixes the problem. I notice that some of the orphans include udev and dbus and hal ... it may take a few days to get around to this...