Bug#351326: xserver-xorg: trouble purging
Hello Lars.
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 05:55:31 +0200
you wrote:
> 0m12.6s ERROR: Command failed (status=256): 'chroot /tmp/tmpS7lFxN
> dpkg
> --purge --pending'
> (Reading database ... 6930 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Removing xserver-xorg ...
> Purging configuration files for xserver-xorg ...
> Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg ...
> dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--purge):
> subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 20
>
> Unfortunately, the X packages have maintainer scripts that scare me
> and confuse me, so I failed to find the reason for this
> problem. Sorry.
At the very end of xserver-xorg.postrm it sources
/usr/share/debconf/confmodule to call db_purge (added by
dh_installdebconf) and gets reinvoked under debconf. Then update-rc.d
prints the same message about startup links to debconf redirected
stdout, which makes debconf bail out.
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