Re: dpkg can't purge init script

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 07:44:29PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> I can't purge a package :
> 
> curitiba_POTATO:/# dpkg --purge superviser-server
> (Reading database ... 9401 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing superviser-server ...
> Stopping superviser-server: dpkg: error processing superviser-server (--purge):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

[BTW, should the package be called supervisOr-server?]

So it looks as though the superviser-server init.d stop script exited
with exit status 1 instead of 0.

> Here comes the script :
> 
> [eric@curitibaPOTATO:~/arturo/superviser-server-1.0]$ more debian/prerm
> #! /bin/sh
> # prerm script for superviser-server
> #
> # see: dh_installdeb(1)
> 
> set -e

so it will exist on any error...

> case "$1" in
>     remove|upgrade|deconfigure)
> #       install-info --quiet --remove /usr/info/superviser-server.info.gz
>         ;;
> 
>     failed-upgrade)
>         ;;
>     *)
>         echo "prerm called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
>         exit 0

This should probably be "exit 1".

>     ;;
> esac
> 
> # dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically
> # generated by other debhelper scripts.
> 
> #DEBHELPER#
> 
> exit 0


> And the debhelper script :
> 
> [eric@curitibaPOTATO:~/arturo/superviser-server-1.0]$ more debian/prerm.debhelper
> # Automatically added by dh_installdocs
> if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) -a -L /usr/doc/superviser-server ]; then
>         rm -f /usr/doc/superviser-server
> fi
> # End automatically added section

OK there.

> # Automatically added by dh_installinit
> /etc/init.d/superviser-server stop
> # End automatically added section

And that's OK, _as long as /etc/init.d/superviser-server stop returns
with a zero exit status_.

> Is this a bug in debhelper ?

Doesn't appear to be.  Check that /etc/init.d/superviser-server uses
the correct exit status.

   Julian

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