Package: hotplug Version: 0.0.20040329-17 Severity: normal
hotplug fails on postrm with purge: --- 7812-smaug:~# apt-get remove --purge hotplug Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: hotplug* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 393kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 22313 files and directories currently installed.) Removing hotplug ... Purging configuration files for hotplug ... rmdir: `/etc/hotplug/.run/': No such file or directory rmdir: `/etc/hotplug/': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing hotplug (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: hotplug E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) --- The directories mentioned by rmdir does not exist. udev was never installed on this machine (sarge). Removing the offending rmdir in /var/lib/dpkg/info/hotplug.postrm makes the package uninstall and purge cleanly. Regards /Rasmus -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=en_DK, LC_CTYPE=en_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages hotplug depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii grep 2.5.1.ds1-4 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities ii procps 1:3.2.1-2 The /proc file system utilities -- debconf information: * hotplug/ignore_pci_class_display: false * hotplug/net_agent_policy: hotplug * hotplug/static_module_list: hotplug/x11_usbmice_hack: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]