On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 10:11:58PM -0400, David Niklas wrote: > Hello, > I installed vrfydmn and tuptime, but they failed to configure. I don't > have to have them, so I decided to remove them, but I cannot uninstall > them either. I tried with apt and with dpkg --force-all. > > A log is included below. > > If someone could tell me how to tell the system that they're not > installed, I could remove them by hand. > > Or maybe you have an idea how to uninstall them.
If you look closely at the log below... > # dpkg --purge --force-all vrfydmn tuptime > (Reading database ... 2636897 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing vrfydmn (0.11.0-4) ... > /etc/init.d/vrfydmn: line 46: stop_daemon: command not found > invoke-rc.d: initscript vrfydmn, action "stop" failed. ... /etc/init.d/vrfydmn is failing... > dpkg: error processing package vrfydmn (--purge): > installed vrfydmn package pre-removal script subprocess returned error ...which is invoked by the package pre-remove script. Thus removal fails. You find that pre-remove script here: /var/lib/dpkg/info/<your package>.prerm so in your case it is /var/lib/dpkg/info/vrfydmn.prerm One way to get out of that is to insert at the top of that script an "exit 0", which makes the script always succeed, then try your dpkg --purge vrfydmn (same for your other package). BTW: if anyone knows a more elegant "knob" for that, I'd like to know :-) Cheers -- t
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