Thank you for answering, Florian: On Monday 26 June 2006 16:35, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 17:16:41 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Sunday 25 June 2006 08:43, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 20:20:41 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > > running sid on i386 > > > > > > > > What's up here? I can't get doodle to be updated. > > > > > > > > "/etc/init.d/doodled stop" does not stop doodle! > > > > I cannot even kill it. > > [...] > > > > Which signal did you send with kill, SIGTERM or SIGKILL? The two > > > doodled processes do not seem to be zombified, so "pkill -9 doodled" as > > > root should get rid of them. > > [...] > > > OK, thank you. "pkill -9 doodled" killed the demon but it does not help > > installing doodled-0.6.5-3. Problem is: doodled has no > > /var/run/doodled.pid file. So the /etc/init.d/doodled script does not > > work. I can still neither install doodled-0.6.5-3 nor deinstall it. Is > > there a way around? > > What exactly happens now if you try to start the doodle daemon again > yourself? (Starting it again should generate a new PID file.)
That is the weird thing, which I fail to understand; there is no PID file /var/run/doodled.pid when doodled is acrually running. As I said that is certainly the problem for the update script which cannot stop doodled with "/etc/init.d/doodled stop" > > What is the exact error message when you attempt to (de)install or > upgrade? > Preparing to replace doodled 0.6.5-1 (using .../doodled_0.6.5-3_i386.deb) ... Stopping doodle daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript doodled, action "stop" failed. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... Stopping doodle daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript doodled, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/doodled_0.6.5-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting doodle daemon: doodled. Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/doodled_0.6.5-3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: kind regards, Eike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
