Bug#346028: linux-2.6: Hangs while attempting to purge

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:34:06AM +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> >Package: linux-2.6
> >Severity: serious
> >Justification: Won't uninstall cleanly
> >
> >
> >It hangs on this line of the postrm script:
> >
> >my $ret = purge();
> >
> >I can get it to work by deleting this line.  Perhaps this is because a
> >debconf routine is being called after "stop" has been called?  I don't 
> >know,
> >but anyway it's a serious bug.
> >
> >This bug appears in linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 and linux-image-2.6.15-1-686,
> >and I assume in other flavours as well.
> 
> Hi Nathanael.
> I can confirm this problem, in fact i have also filed a bug against it: 
> see #344767.

Hi both of you, ...

It would be great if you could confirm the exact version of those two
packages, and could provide us some log of what is happening, as this bug
report doesn't seem to be very informative.

This issue should have been fixed in linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 though, so we
really need to find out what did go wrong.

Also, could you please give us the output of ls -lR /etc/kernel, and append it
to the bug report ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther