Package: bitlbee Version: 1.2.3-1+b1 Severity: important Hello, trying to remove 'bitlbee' I got the following (using LANG=C because I doubt you speak Romanian ;):
# LANG=C aptitude purge bitlbee Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: bitlbee{p} libevent-1.4-2{pu} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 31 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1016kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory (Reading database ... 127766 files and directories currently installed.) Removing bitlbee ... invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/bitblee not found. Purging configuration files for bitlbee ... Looking for files to backup/remove ... Removing user `bitlbee' ... Warning: group `bitlbee' has no more members. userdel: user bitlbee is currently logged in /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel bitlbee' returned error code 8. Exiting. Removing libevent-1.4-2 ... Purging configuration files for libevent-1.4-2 ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Reading task descriptions... Done and: # ps aux | grep sbin/bitlbee bitlbee 3282 0.0 0.0 42060 1148 ? S 08:15 0:00 /usr/sbin/bitlbee -p 6667 -P /var/run/bitlbee.pid -F Trying to install it again gives more errors: # LANG=C aptitude install bitlbee Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: bitlbee libevent-1.4-2{a} 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/417kB of archives. After unpacking 1016kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package libevent-1.4-2. (Reading database ... 127734 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libevent-1.4-2 (from .../libevent-1.4-2_1.4.11-stable-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package bitlbee. Unpacking bitlbee (from .../bitlbee_1.2.3-1+b1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up libevent-1.4-2 (1.4.11-stable-1) ... Setting up bitlbee (1.2.3-1+b1) ... The system user `bitlbee' already exists. Exiting. chmod: cannot access `/var/lib/bitlbee/': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing bitlbee (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: bitlbee E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up bitlbee (1.2.3-1+b1) ... The system user `bitlbee' already exists. Exiting. chmod: cannot access `/var/lib/bitlbee/': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing bitlbee (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: bitlbee Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Running a 'killall bitlbee' and then purging it apears to work. Regards, Andrei -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bitlbee depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 3.1.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.9-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries pn libevent-1.4-2 <none> (no description available) ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnutls26 2.6.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii net-tools 1.60-23 The NET-3 networking toolkit bitlbee recommends no packages. bitlbee suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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