Debian apt-get blues

[Blake Barnett]

If all else fails, you can take a look at the contents of:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/wdm.postinst

See what it does, and perhaps fix it, and report a bug.  If it's too
complex, or you don't want to bother, as a last resort, just move the
file out of that directory (/var/tmp is good..)  and attempt to remove
the package again.


On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 02:07, Bob George wrote:
> I seem to have broken something with Debian by trying (foolishly) to 
> uninstall wdm while in X. Now I get:
> 
> --- cut here --- cut here ---
> # apt-get remove wdm
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   wdm
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1266kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> (Reading database ... 49948 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing wdm ...
> dpkg: error processing wdm (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  wdm
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> --- cut here --- cut here ---
> 
> Installing is no better:
> 
> --- cut here --- cut here ---
> # apt-get install wdm
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, wdm is already the newest version.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Setting up kdm (2.2.2-14) ...
> dpkg: error processing kdm (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
> Setting up wdm (1.20-15) ...
> dpkg: error processing wdm (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  kdm
>  wdm
> localepurge: processing locale files ...
> localepurge: processing man pages ...
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> --- cut here --- cut here ---
> 
> So now kdm is broken to boot. I'm in a bit of a quandry, and I would 
> like to get a graphical login going again. Any suggestions? I've tried 
> "dpkg-reconfigure wdm", "apt-get --fix-missing wdm" and screaming at 
> it, but no luck so far.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Bob
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