Re: Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

[Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:18:32PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Several weeks ago I had a failure trying to uninstall gdm on a sid box. 
> Since then, I've been unable to install or uninstall [x|w|g]dm, and 
> several other packages have started failing on install. I've been doing 
> a dselect update/install just about every day, hoping that whatever's 
> broken will get fixed, but so far nothing, and I haven't found any 
> helpful information via dogpile or google. Anyone have a solution?
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Here's an example of the error:
> 
>  .
>  .
>  .
> 
> Removing xdm ...
> dpkg: error processing xdm (--purge):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  gdm
>  wdm
>  xdm

Does dselect report reinst-required for [g|w|x]dm? If so, you have to
use dpkg with option  --force-rein­streq to remove the packages. See
man dpkg.
-- 
Jerome

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