On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: > I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I > was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to > resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install > it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove > openoffice.org-writer2latex.
That indicates a problem with the pre-removal script of this package; aptitude cannot do much about that. > I ended up aborting the process and went on > about my business. Tonight I needed to install ksensors on the same > machine when the OpenOffice problem again reared its ugly head. The openoffice.org-writer2latex package is in a broken state on your system (incomplete removal), therefore aptitude has to try to fix it before it can perform actions on other packages. > rattler:~# aptitude install ksensors [...] > Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ... > > > At this point, aptitude will sit here for as long as you are willing to > wait. On another terminal, I did 'ps ax'. The relevant portions follow: > > > 4726 pts/3 Sl+ 0:03 aptitude install ksensors > 4757 pts/6 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 24 > --force-depends --force-remove-essential --remove > openoffice.org-writer2latex > 4758 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh > /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove > 4759 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh > /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove > 4760 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg > list --shared > 4761 pts/6 S+ 0:00 grep Identifier:.*writer2latex > 4762 pts/6 S+ 0:00 cut -d: -f2 > 4780 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 4 > 4802 pts/6 R+ 0:11 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin list > --shared -env:JFW_PLUGIN_DO_NOT_CHECK_ACCESSIBILITY=1 > -env:UNO_JAVA_JFW_INSTALL_DATA=$$ORIGIN/../share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml > -env:UserInstallation=fi [...] It seems that the pre-removal script gets stuck while trying to determine the full name of the writer2latex extension. You can try this yourself: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg list --shared | grep latex If that command comes up empty or if it hangs then you might have to comment out every invocation of /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg in /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and run "aptitude install -f" to get the broken package off your system. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
