Public bug reported: Binary package hint: taskjuggler
It seems that there is a stray "touch" command in the postrm script, which causes it to fail, leaving dpkg in a broken state : $ sudo apt-get remove --purge taskjuggler Password: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: taskjuggler* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4321kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 150168 files and directories currently installed.) Removing taskjuggler ... ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 6074, errno = 0 ~ScimInputContextPlugin() touch: missing file operand Try `touch --help' for more information. dpkg: error processing taskjuggler (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: taskjuggler E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ** Affects: taskjuggler (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- Postrm script fails to run https://launchpad.net/bugs/54464 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs