I got this same crash when trying to uninstall drupal. Here's what I got at the terminal. $ sudo aptitude purge drupal6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: dbconfig-common{u} drupal6{p} exim4{u} libt1-5{u} php5-gd{u} wwwconfig-common{u} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7,725kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 239222 files and directories currently installed.) Removing drupal6 ... dbconfig-common: dumping mysql database drupal6 to /var/tmp/drupal6.drupal6.2010-02-12-23.34.mysql.J2XPRl. error encountered dumping database: mysqldump: Got error: 1049: Unknown database 'drupal6' when selecting the database dbconfig-common: drupal6 remove: aborted. dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password dpkg: error processing drupal6 (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password Errors were encountered while processing: drupal6 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done
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