diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3582ac57..109ba503 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.215) utopic; urgency=medium
+
+  * ubuntu-touch; DON'T DO THAT AT HOME ! (and keep the kids away) ...
+    hack to remove a bunch of initscripts that currently break writable mode.
+    this needs to be dropped again ASAP (once a proper fix landed) !!
+
+ -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 30 May 2014 10:09:58 +0200
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.214) utopic; urgency=medium
 
   * ubuntu-desktop-next: Use the Task fields that the archive now has for this
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-touch/hooks/70-reconfigure-autopilot.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-touch/hooks/70-reconfigure-autopilot.chroot
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-touch/hooks/85-hack-hack-hack-the-initscripts.chroot b/live-build/ubuntu-touch/hooks/85-hack-hack-hack-the-initscripts.chroot
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..5317fe0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-touch/hooks/85-hack-hack-hack-the-initscripts.chroot
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+for f in checkroot.sh checkroot-bootclean.sh checkfs.sh mountkernfs.sh mountdevsubfs.sh mountall.sh mountnfs.sh mountnfs-bootclean.sh mountall-bootclean.sh; do
+	echo '#!/bin/true' >/etc/init.d/$f
+done