Re: Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

["Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>]

On Sun Mar 18 14:16:20 2001 Mircea Luca wrote...
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>Stan Brown wrote:
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>> This of course renders dselect useless!
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>> Help, please, how do I fix this?
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>kill -9 logpager
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>before dpkg --purge 
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>should do it.
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>Or you can remove /etc/init.d/console-log ,reboot then safely remove it.
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Thanks for the help.

Tha, indeed did alow me to remove the package abd get dselect back working.

Could you give me any clues as to why this package ight be misbehaving like this?
It looks like a usefull tool, if i can make it work.


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