Control: severity 779254 grave On 2015-02-25, John Crout wrote: > Zoneminder wouldn't install. (State is "rH"). I attempted to remove > it but this also failed.
Well, that sounds pretty bad... > I traced the error to use of an invalid parameter passed to the postrn > script. The invalid value is "remove" but the script can't handle > that value; it only handles "purge". That seems like a pretty major problem. Setting the severity accordingly... > Any attempt I might make to correct it would be a guess (such as > setting the parameter value to "purge" in the script). Rather than > chance complications, I'm reporting and asking for direction. > > Here's the error: > ... irrelevant output omitted > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 10.2 MB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... 157264 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing zoneminder ... > postrm called with unknown argument `remove' > dpkg: error processing zoneminder (--remove): > subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > zoneminder > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) If you don't have data on this install, you might want to try: apt-get --purge remove zoneminder > Here's the postrm code: > (from /var/lib/dpkg/info/zoneminder.postrm) > > #! /bin/sh > > set -e > > case "$1" in > purge) > echo 'delete from user where User="zmuser";' | mysql > --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf mysql > echo 'delete from db where User="zmuser";' | mysql > --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf mysql > mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf -f drop zm > ;; > > *) > echo "postrm called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2 > exit 1 > ;; > esac Manually adding to /var/lib/dpkg/info/zoneminder.postrm: remove) ;; In between those two clauses might be enough to get it to remove correctly. > (I'm interested in maintaining the package if someone is willing to > serve as a mentor.) You might want to read and chime in the Request for Help bug: https://bugs.debian.org/760314 [email protected] live well, vagrant
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