[Initng] ng-update Syntax Error

[Janelle Seymour]

I was trying out InitNG after following
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InitNG.  I had some errors which I posted
about here:  http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2542211&postcount=180.
After seeing no responses to multiple requests for help in that thread, I
decided to just uninstall and play with some other things to speed up my
boot time.  I am running Ubuntu 7.04.  I booted into my non-InitNG session.
When I aptitude removed I received the following error:

torena at starbuck:~$ sudo aptitude remove initng-usplash
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  initng-usplash
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 81.9kB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 112033 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing initng-usplash ...
/sbin/ng-update: 163: Syntax error: Bad substitution
dpkg: error processing initng-usplash (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
/sbin/ng-update: 163: Syntax error: Bad substitution
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initng-usplash
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
torena at starbuck:~$

I know next to nothing about scripting otherwise I would have tried to
decipher the error in the line of that script but it's greek to me. :)  I've
tried reinstalling initng but it still wants to complete the uninstallation
of initng-usplash.  It's now become a bigger problem as nothing in
/etc/init.d will work.  Example:

torena at starbuck:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba start
torena at starbuck:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
torena at starbuck:~$

I think I've provided all the information I've got, please let me know if
you need anything else from me.  I went to the IRC channel but no one was
available so this is the last place I've got to try for help. :(

Janelle
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