Re: removing kdm
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:12:20AM +0900, htaka@c-d-k.ne.jp wrote:
> Hello, I have a problem of dselect message.
> I was trying to remove kdm. However the following error message appeared, and
> I can not go further now. Please somebody give me any suggestion.
>
> ---error message-------------------------------------
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> kdm
> 20 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/9822kB of archives. After unpacking 435kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ... 30212 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing kdm ...
> dpkg - warning: while removing kdm, directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm' not empty so not removed.
> dpkg - warning: while removing kdm, directory `/etc/X11/kdm' not empty so not removed.
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postrm: line 15: syntax error near unexpected token `kdm'
> dpkg: error processing kdm (--remove):
> subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
> start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/kdm: No such file or directory
A quick and dirty hack is to look over the postrm script
(/var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postrm), and either fix it or do what it does
manually and delete it.
--
Stephen Pitts
smpitts@midsouth.rr.com
webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
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