That took care of it. Thanks Bob
On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote > > > I just installed Debian-1.2 on a machine with no mouse. gpm was > > installed as part of the base system. I configured it to /dev/null, > > since there is no mouse, but figured it would be petter to remove it > > altogether. I am trying to remove it with gpm --purge, but get the > > message: > > > > dpkg error processing gpm (--purge) > > subprocess preremoval script returned error exit status 137 > > Starting gpm -m /dev/null -t bare > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > gpm > > This is an old release of gpm which is broken :( > > edit /etc/init.d/gpm and remove the entry "killall gpm". After that you can > killall -9 gpm to kill it and then dpkg --purge gpm to remove it > completely > > > Killing gpm before running dpkg didn't help. > > The problem is that /etc/init.d/gpm is called gpm, too. So a > killall gpm would kill this script instead of the real daemon. > > Sorry, my fault. :-( > > Joey > > > -- > / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / > / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
