Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am running potato. Some days ago I removed xdm, and apt-get tried to >remove all the kde-packages with it. Only kdebase was not removed. Now >it is impossible to dist-upgrade new files. > >This is the errormessage: > >8<----------------------------schnipp------------------------------ >Removing kdebase ... >dpkg: error processing kdebase (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 >Errors were encountered while processing: > kdebase >E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) >8<----------------------------schnapp------------------------------
Out of curiosity, does editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdebase.postrm, changing the second instance of 'wm-menu-config' to '/usr/sbin/wm-menu-config', and trying the removal again work? If so, I'll file a bug if you want. If not, try changing '/bin/sh' in the first line to '/bin/sh -x' and show us the output from another apt-get run. >Can I safely force removing it with "dpkg -r --force kdebase"? Or can >it eventually destroy the package-database in any way? Possibly (I can't honestly remember), but --force is rarely a good idea. It's better to get the bug fixed. Regards, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
