Bug#4712: NIS uninstall problems
You (Christoph Lameter) wrote:
> package: nis
> version: 2.00
>
> Installing and unstalling without doing anything with the package yields:
Yes, a bit annoying. However I don't think the nis package can do anything
about this, these are more dpkg problems (correct me if I'm wrong).
> waterf:/usr/doc/nis# dpkg --purge nis
> (Reading database ... 25369 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing nis ...
> dpkg - warning: while removing nis, directory `/var/yp' not empty so not removed.
.. Because there is a configuration file there, that gets purged later.
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories
> Purging configuration files for nis ...
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories
> job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories
> cd_links: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories
This probably happened because you started dpkg --purge in one of the
directories that got removed.
Shall we close this bug report or redirect it to dpkg ?
Mike.
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