On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:24, csanyipal wrote: > On Etch I have installed a package: ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 that I > have been downloaded. This installation wasn't success. > > After that this package came to be broken. > > If I try to remove this package, I get an error message: > > ------------------> > (Reading database ... 60952 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 ... > find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a > non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \ > (-mindepth affects tests specified before it as well as those \ > specified after it). Please specify options before other \ > arguments. > > find: warning: you have specified the -maxdepth option after a > non-option argument -name, but options are not positional \ > (-maxdepth affects tests specified before it as well as \ > those specified after it). Please specify options before \ > other arguments. > > Could not identify your distribution's way of automatically \ > loading modules, Exiting. > > dpkg: error processing ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > ------------------< > > What can I do to solve this problem? > > I appreciate any advices.
Well, it's not removing correctly because it's failing in it's post-rm script. If you just want to force the package out, you can do the following: dpkg -r --force-all ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386 If that still doesn't work, you will have to hack the post-rm script to exit with success, i.e. edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386.postrm and either fix the error, or just make the script do an unconditional "exit 0". The second method is a rather hackish ways to do it, but it'll definitely work. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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