Re: How do I remove gpm?
That took care of it. Thanks
Bob
On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote
>
> > I just installed Debian-1.2 on a machine with no mouse. gpm was
> > installed as part of the base system. I configured it to /dev/null,
> > since there is no mouse, but figured it would be petter to remove it
> > altogether. I am trying to remove it with gpm --purge, but get the
> > message:
> >
> > dpkg error processing gpm (--purge)
> > subprocess preremoval script returned error exit status 137
> > Starting gpm -m /dev/null -t bare
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > gpm
>
> This is an old release of gpm which is broken :(
>
> edit /etc/init.d/gpm and remove the entry "killall gpm". After that you can
> killall -9 gpm to kill it and then dpkg --purge gpm to remove it
> completely
>
> > Killing gpm before running dpkg didn't help.
>
> The problem is that /etc/init.d/gpm is called gpm, too. So a
> killall gpm would kill this script instead of the real daemon.
>
> Sorry, my fault. :-(
>
> Joey
>
>
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