Re: broken apt-get/dpkg
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:18:42PM -0600, Dan Davison wrote:
>
> Hi, I can't remove a package (powernowd) despite trying various forcing
> options and --purge etc with apt-get and dpkg. The error output is below.
> Could someone tell me what I should do in this situation please? The only
> other thing I've tried is to rename the file mentioned in the output
> (invoke-rc.d): similar messages result but without the reference to this
> file (output pasted at the bottom of this email).
>
If you check the bug database then you will see that it is a known bug.
It bit me too. I solved it through modifying /etc/init.d/powernowd. In
the line where start-stop-daemon is called, I added "--oknodo" switch.
Hope it helps.
Peter
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