Re: Purging Alsa -> invoke-rc.d: initscript alsa, action "stop" failed.

[gnalle@ruc.dk (Niels L. Ellegaard)]

Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com> writes:

> You can see what script is failing by looking in
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.* Although, it seems that the prerm
> (pre-remove) script is trying to shut down alsa by running
> /etc/init.d/alsa stop (may no be correct name). So, you may need to
> do a workaround by putting a 'exit 0' at the top of the script. This
> should allow you to run the scripts with out error.  you can also
> try to run dpkg with 'debug' options (man dpkg)

The error occured because rplayd was using the alsa-modules.

dpkg --purge  -D10 alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-386
killall -9 rplayd
dpkg --purge  -D10 alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-386 
Profit

         Thank you for the helpful advice.

                        Niels

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