Bug#4218: Problems removing INN

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>]

You (Rob Leslie) wrote:
> Package: inn
> Version: 1.4unoff4-1
> 
> deimos:~:[2]# dpkg --purge inn
> (Reading database ... 20824 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing inn ...
> Trying to stop INN..
> Removing crontab for news..
> Removing files in /var/log/news and /var/run/innd..
> dpkg - warning: while removing inn, directory `/var/spool/news/.outgoing' not empty so not removed.
> dpkg - warning: while removing inn, directory `/var/spool/news/over.view' not empty so not removed.
> dpkg: error processing inn (--purge):
>  cannot remove `/var/spool/news': Device or resource busy

Ehm yes. /var/spool/news shouldn't be in the INN package; your /var/spool/news
is probably on a seperate partition so rmdir /var/spool/news will always fail..
This is a bug in the INN package. I'm still working on it, though rather
slowly (veeeerry slowly, sorry).

> ** INN news server configuration

Yep, dpkg tries do undo the purge so it probably starts the postinst script
again with a special argument which the INN postinst happiliy ignores.

> chown: /var/log/news/.: No such file or directory
> I can't access your /etc/news/inn.conf (No such file or directory) - HELP

Yes, too late.. armageddon :)

> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  inn

No worries, but it _is_ kind of hard to get entirely rid of all traces
of INN on your system.. dpkg will keep thinking some parts are still
installed.

Mike.
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