This was fixed in upstream commit 6f214969e
** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/997282
Title:
sudo doesn't uninstall completely
Status in sudo package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
On precise (12.04) the removal of sudo fail.
******command output************
root@ubuntu:/var/lib/dpkg/info# apt-get remove --purge sudo
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
sudo* (1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 52741 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sudo ...
Purging configuration files for sudo ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/sudo exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
dpkg: error processing sudo (--purge):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
sudo
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@ubuntu:/var/lib/dpkg/info# dpkg -l|grep -v ^ii
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description
+++-================================-==============================-==========================================================================
pc sudo 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3 Provide
limited super user privileges to specific users
************end of output**************
As stated in the error message adding -f to update-rc.d in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sudo.postrm does fix the problem.
Here's the diff:
22c22
< update-rc.d sudo remove >/dev/null
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> update-rc.d -f sudo remove >/dev/null
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