Re: irremovable package?
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Mr Marcum, you are a gentleman of the first order.
Success, and Thank You I now know where to look when such things
happen in the future.
Curt-
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 01:02, Bill Marcum was heart to say:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:00:11PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
> > Hi. Since this is on a laptop I thought I'd ask here since the
> > users forum has not been responsive...
> >
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> > Hi. dpkg has become locked up over one errant package and is not
> > allowing anything else to be processed.
> >
> > - -----------------------------------------
> > # dpkg -P --force-all nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686
> > (Reading database ... 118665 files and directories currently
> > installed.)
> > Removing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 ...
> > cat: alsa: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: error processing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 (--purge):
> > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686
> > - -----------------------------------------
> >
> > Where can I erase this package from the database so dselect and
> > the rest will again function correctly? The module itself is long
> > gone.
>
> Edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686.postrm
> and insert "exit 0" as the second line.
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