Bug#893424: Cannot uninstall package

2018-03-18 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 01:42:09AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Interesting. The empty directory shows up with size 0. > What filesystem do you use for / ? Similarly here: rak@zeta:~$ ls -lashR /etc/mail /etc/mail: total 24K 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 138 Mar 18 14:32 . 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 ro

Bug#893424: Cannot uninstall package

2018-03-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2018-03-18 19:43, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-10) ... > rm: cannot remove '/etc/mail/m4': Is a directory > dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--remove): > installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned error > exit status 123 > ls -

Bug#893424: Cannot uninstall package

2018-03-18 Thread Ryan Kavanagh
Package: sendmail-base Version: 8.15.2-10 Severity: serious Due to a bug in the maintainer script, sendmail-base cannot be uninstalled: rak@zeta:~$ sudo apt-get remove sendmail-base [sudo] password for rak: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done T