-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mr Marcum, you are a gentleman of the first order.
Success, and Thank You I now know where to look when such things happen in the future. Curt- On Wednesday 31 March 2004 01:02, Bill Marcum was heart to say: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:00:11PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > Hi. Since this is on a laptop I thought I'd ask here since the > > users forum has not been responsive... > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hi. dpkg has become locked up over one errant package and is not > > allowing anything else to be processed. > > > > - ----------------------------------------- > > # dpkg -P --force-all nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 > > (Reading database ... 118665 files and directories currently > > installed.) > > Removing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 ... > > cat: alsa: No such file or directory > > dpkg: error processing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 (--purge): > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 > > - ----------------------------------------- > > > > Where can I erase this package from the database so dselect and > > the rest will again function correctly? The module itself is long > > gone. > > Edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686.postrm > and insert "exit 0" as the second line. - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQGrSHi9Y35yItIgBAQHKDQf+JQWqv3QKWnOQNVr5pTWQ4h57xH9v9hNj PE+DZCjasTs1sEzCrVjm7bTJFbrO3qcfL6aYosQ0utBbhrpS/gA+8t6jIkzbLKdF Rr6hXhGYj1cMJJ6+7pdS1auQGq7vgW7j/sdjedJ4nuWC7Td5mxFssnUv1v/44bNG EP45z+mCdTy4Fzb4heZrTR33V1C6HyVvJ6Jl4YwBZg7DnSJVpp+EPWzG20BXFOyC +ontfSPodVcHDtlCnl8aMDWPlN40cHmxHfWi4le/6ngJAHsCL5246Lnsp+5TjGpE 42oBCE3mE9aU9nToYhxYZA2fzmQMEonRb6XOxOcgx6JBdUVIM9/wlg== =b5e1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
