Dear folks at deity, I don't know if i am allowed to ask this on your list. I looked up the archives and the bugs, but I'm not a grande recherchieur, and on a slow dialup, found nothing appropriate so far. Already wrote to the d-user list, but no reply. Perhaps you know another link. And before i forget, please cc me.
Installed Gnome2 on woody i386 using aptitude. Then i decided to purge gdm2 (use kdm). Some dirs not empty, remaining, apt said. I found empty /etc/gdm directories, and deleted them manually. Then purged once again. Now there was an error, and aptitude left the package with status 'C' half-configured, not purging. Translated from german it goes like 'dpkg error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation returns error code 10. Procceeding gdm2. dpkg returned error code (1)' So, i tried to reinstall again gdm2, but that failed also now with a similar error message. ( btw. it's hard to read the originally dpkg-error because the text immediateley is overwritten by the loginmanager-chooser) I fiddled with dpkg and apt-get, but I'm not used to commandlines. I tried to recreate the /etc/gdm/* manually. Anyway I am unable to purge gdm2. The problem is, aptitude really hangs at this, canceling most pending actions. So I'm not able to proceed. Ack ! What happened at all ?! I can't find an appropriate log: /var/log/aptitude is empty. Couldn't find out how to get dpkg -D10 working. I don't understand the manpages of dpkg and apt easily, mostly in english here. The CD's are fsn.hu's with Gnome2 from Gustavo Noronha ( debian.org/~kov ). Base system is woody 3.0 rev1 from Dec 2002, no updates. I've investigated much work into this laptop, it's for a friend. I promised there will be something better than M$ when i give it back to her. Becuase i lack the time now a new installation+configuration might cost me a about month. Or better to return to MS then. But i couldn't stand that... Please, can you give me a hint ? TIA ! -- micha
