Hi list!
I have a strange behaviour with openvpn.
I wanted to upgrade from 1.6.0 to 2.0 by typing apt-get install
openvpn after inserting the sarge entries in my sources.list.
But it stopped with some strange error-codes like 143
So I tried to remove it by typing apt-get remove openvpn.
devastator:/# apt-get remove openvpn
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openvpn
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 467kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
dpkg: error processing openvpn (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
openvpn
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The next thing I tried was reinstalling the package by typing
dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -r openvpn
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database ... 8910 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing openvpn ...
Stopping OpenVPN
/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d: line 439: 3670 Terminated
"${INITDPREFIX}${INITSCRIPTID}" "${saction}" "$@"
invoke-rc.d: initscript openvpn, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing openvpn (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 143
Usage: openvpn {start|stop}
invoke-rc.d: initscript openvpn, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
openvpn
I also tried to download newer deb-files of this package by using
apt-get clean and apt-get update, but the problem still remains.
Is there any other possibility to remove a package without using apt
or dpkg to make this thing work again?