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and subject line Re: rabbitmq-server: fails to purge: `userdel rabbitmq'
returned error code 8
has caused the Debian Bug report #646175,
regarding rabbitmq-server: fails to purge: `userdel rabbitmq' returned error
code 8
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Package: rabbitmq-server
Version: 2.6.1-1
Severity: important
# apt-get --purge remove rabbitmq-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
...
Stopping rabbitmq-server: rabbitmq-server.
Purging configuration files for rabbitmq-server ...
Removing user `rabbitmq' ...
Warning: group `rabbitmq' has no more members.
userdel: user rabbitmq is currently logged in
/usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel rabbitmq' returned error code 8.
Exiting.
dpkg: error processing rabbitmq-server (--purge):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for man-db ...
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while
processing:
rabbitmq-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I think that the issues is that the 'beam' program is not stopping soon
enough or at all.
I'm able to avoid the failure with this:
# diff -u info/rabbitmq-server.postrm.dist info/rabbitmq-server.postrm
--- info/rabbitmq-server.postrm.dist 2011-09-27 16:35:50.000000000
+0000
+++ info/rabbitmq-server.postrm 2011-10-21 21:22:22.000000000 +0000
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
if getent passwd rabbitmq >/dev/null; then
# Stop epmd if run by the rabbitmq user
pkill -u rabbitmq epmd || :
+ pkill -u rabbitmq beam || :
deluser rabbitmq
fi
This is ubuntu bug 878597.
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APT prefers oneiric-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500,
'oneiric'), (100, 'oneiric-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: rabbitmq-server
Version: 2.8.2-1
This bug was fixed in 2.8.2-1 (by not invoking 'userdel').
http://lists.rabbitmq.com/pipermail/rabbitmq-announce/attachments/20120430/7c32a896/attachment.txt
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