Re: dpkg purge problem

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:15:19AM +0300, Sasho Angelov wrote:
> When I try to purge old linux image:
> 
> sudo dpkg --purge --force-all linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7

Why do you need to force things?  This may be a clue.  

What package manager do you use and why don't you use it to remove this?

[snip]
> Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
> 
>      And stop here. Only I can do is to press Ctrl+C
>      then result is:
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 (--purge):
>  subprocess post-removal script killed by signal (Interrupt)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7
> 
> 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7.list is empty file