Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 ! (solved)

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:58AM +0100, mi wrote: # debconf is not a registry, so we only fiddle with the default file if it # does not exist if [ ! -e $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE ]; then db_get shared/default-x-display-manager if [ $THIS_PACKAGE != $RET ]; then echo Please be

Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 !

2003-01-30 Thread Barry Pollock
Try redirecting the output to a file then you can blook at the output dpkg --purge packagename dpkg.file 21 packagename is the package name of your package to remove Barry On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, michaw wrote: Hello List ! Usually apt/itude works without problems here. But this time seems i

Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 ! (solved)

2003-01-30 Thread mi
Hello again. I tracked the problem, and it appears there wasn't anymore the file /etc/X11/default-x-manager. As a consequence the postinst-script reached a get_db call which seemed to exit the script with an error. It's the following passus. Excerpt from /var/lib/info/dpkg/gdm2/postinst: vvv

apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 !

2003-01-28 Thread michaw
Hello List ! Usually apt/itude works without problems here. But this time seems i kicked it really bad :| I upgraded to Gnome2 for woody on i386 and decided at one point to purge gdm2. Well there was this warning 'directory /etc/gdm/some not empty so not removed', leaving it

Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 !

2003-01-28 Thread michaw
First to add, please cc me. Tried to move on hoping to make up for the lost hourshowever, indeed this seems to be something serious. Apt/itude _hangs_ at the half configured 'gdm2', terminating any pending installations. I'm not able to proceed. Ack ! Anyway got some things cleared:

Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 !

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
michaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded to Gnome2 for woody on i386 and decided at one point to purge gdm2. Well there was this warning 'directory /etc/gdm/some not empty so not removed', leaving it half-configured. There are several states a package can be in. Half-configured is, I