Stan Brown wrote: > > I installled console-log, because it looked useful. > > However once I did that, I could not get the machine in question to shutdown > cleanly, it always hung at shutting down console-log. > > So, I tried to remove it with dselect. dslect hung while suting it down alos. > > At this point in time, I have rbooted several times, and a "dpkg > --purge-package > console-log" hnags at the "shuting down package" state, forever (it's been > siting > there for an hour! > > This of course renders dselect useless! > > Help, please, how do I fix this? >
kill -9 logpager before dpkg --purge should do it. Or you can remove /etc/init.d/console-log ,reboot then safely remove it.
