Comment 5 for bug 74135

I can't install runit, and can't uninstall it either:

After unpacking 487kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package runit.
(Reading database ... 215100 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking runit (from .../runit_1.6.0-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up runit (1.6.0-1) ...
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
Adding SV inittab entry...
cp: cannot stat `/etc/inittab': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing runit (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 runit
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

chris@trpaslik:~$ sudo apt-get remove runit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  runit
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 487kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 215155 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing runit ...
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
chris@trpaslik:~$