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Re: Can't deinstall package



On Jun 18, Mark Phillips wrote
> 
> Thanks for the advice.  I gave it a go and came up with:
> 
> # dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq kernel-source-1.99.7
> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
>  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
>  reinstall it before attempting a removal.
> (Reading database ... 28305 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing kernel-source-1.99.7 ...
> The file /usr/src/.linux-versions does not exist. This is an 
> misconfiguration, making it hard to provide a /usr/src/linux
> symlink if the latest target is removed.
> 
> Please Hit return to continue.
> 
> Error: /usr/src/linux not a symbolic link, not removing.
> dpkg: error processing kernel-source-1.99.7 (--remove):
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  kernel-source-1.99.7
> 
> So I still can't get rid of it.  Any more ideas?

Hmm.

You installed your own kernels over the one that kernel-source-1.99.7 had
installed, right? Did you remove the 1.99.7 kernel source tree by hand or
is it still lying around somewhere under /usr/src or have you moved it
somewhere else? Could you also tack on the contents of the postinst script
(i.e. /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-1.99.7.postinst) to your next
message? 

Btw, is the kernel-package maintainer reading this?

  Christian

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