Package: sysrqd
Version: 10-1
Severity: normal
Attempting to remove (rather than purge) sysrqd if the service has been
stopped results in an error, and appears to leave the package installed.
However, purge successfully removes the package.
$ sudo aptitude remove sysrqd
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:
sysrqd
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 90.1kB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 373104 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sysrqd ...
Stopping sysrq daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript sysrqd, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing sysrqd (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting sysrq daemon: sysrqd.
Errors were encountered while processing:
sysrqd
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
Reading task descriptions... Done
$ sudo aptitude purge sysrqd
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:
sysrqd{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 90.1kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 373104 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sysrqd ...
Stopping sysrq daemon: sysrqd.
Purging configuration files for sysrqd ...
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
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (550,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages sysrqd depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
sysrqd recommends no packages.
sysrqd suggests no packages.
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