Re: Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

2002-03-07 Thread Kent West
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:18:32PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Several weeks ago I had a failure trying to uninstall gdm on a sid box. Since then, I've been unable to install or uninstall [x|w|g]dm, and several other packages have started failing on install. I've been doing

Re: Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

2002-03-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:18:32PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Several weeks ago I had a failure trying to uninstall gdm on a sid box. > Since then, I've been unable to install or uninstall [x|w|g]dm, and > several other packages have started failing on install. I've been doing > a dselect update/

Re: Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

2002-03-04 Thread Kent West
Oliver Elphick wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 05:49, Kent West wrote: Removing xdm ... dpkg: error processing xdm (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10 The exit status is a number returned by a program as a short indication of whether it succeeded (0) or failed

Re: Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

2002-03-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 05:49, Kent West wrote: > Having gotten no response on the posting below, I'll just ask if anyone > can tell me how to find out what an "error exist status [number]" is. > > Removing xdm ... > > dpkg: error processing xdm (--purge): > > subprocess pre-removal script returne

Re: Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

2002-03-02 Thread Kent West
Having gotten no response on the posting below, I'll just ask if anyone can tell me how to find out what an "error exist status [number]" is. Thanks! Kent Kent West wrote: Several weeks ago I had a failure trying to uninstall gdm on a sid box. Since then, I've been unable to install or uni