Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to
do, since that's the solution in the Microsoft world and isn't supposed
to be the solution for Linux, but unless one of you gurus can help me
fix this, it's the only solution I have left.
cd /var/lib/dpkg/info. Edit the 7 scripts in question and put a 'exit 0' at
the top of each one. dpkg --purge each of them. Then reinstall them. Should
settle the issue.
This did allow me to purge the offending packages. However, it has not
solved the problem. If I try to install xdm now ("apt-get install xdm"),
it again fails. So I added the "set -x" line to xdm.preinst and
xdm.postinst, and did "apt-get --reinstall install xdm" (after the
aforementioned "apt-get install xdm" failed), and got:
fafsa-02[westk]:/var/lib/dpkg/info> sudo apt-get --reinstall install xdm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and
131 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up xdm (4.1.0-14) ...
+ THIS_PACKAGE=xdm
+ THIS_SCRIPT=postinst
+ trap 'message; message "Received signal. Aborting xdm package
postinst script."; message; exit 1' 1 2 3 15
+ command -v readlink
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' '' ']'
++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.postinst
configure ''
dpkg: error processing xdm (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
xdm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
