Jira (PUP-5071) Problems with puppet-agent Debian uninstall

[John Miller (JIRA)]

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John Miller created an issue   Puppet / PUP-5071 Problems with puppet-agent Debian uninstall Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: puppet-agent 1.2.2 Assignee: Kylo Ginsberg Components: Client Created: 2015/08/24 1:00 PM Environment: Debian Jessie Priority: Critical Reporter: John Miller Hi folks, I'm able to install puppet-agent from the PC1 repositories, but I really wanted to switch back to Puppet v3 until we update all of our code, so I tried running: jmiller@100degN:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge puppet-agent Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: puppet-agent* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded. After this operation, 51.1 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 239389 files and directories currently installed.) Removing puppet-agent (1.2.2-1jessie) ... Too few arguments. Too few arguments. Too few arguments. Too few arguments. dpkg: error processing package puppet-agent (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Too few arguments. Too few arguments. Errors were encountered while processing: puppet-agent E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) My apt sources look like: jmiller@100degN:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppetlabs.list # Puppetlabs products deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com jessie main deb-src http://apt.puppetlabs.com jessie main   # Puppetlabs dependencies deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com jessie dependencies deb-src http://apt.puppetlabs.com jessie dependencies   # Puppetlabs devel (uncomment to activate) # deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com jessie devel # deb-src http://apt.puppetlabs.com jessie devel jmiller@100degN:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppetlabs-pc1.list # Puppetlabs PC1 jessie Repository deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com jessie PC1 #deb-src http://apt.puppetlabs.com jessie PC1 The apt-get remove --purge breaks the system state: I'm unable to revert to puppet 3.8 using the standard apt tools. The prerm script tries to run systemctl --no-reload disable #<OpenStruct name="puppet", service_file="/lib/systemd/system/puppet.service">.service > /dev/null 2>&1 || : which pretty obviously evaluates to systemctl --no-reload disable Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.5#64020-sha1:78acd6c) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.