Package: wesnoth-server
Version: 1.1.8-1
Severity: normal
It's impossible to remove (or upgrade!) wesnoth-server if it's not
currently running, because the maintainer scripts abort when it can't be
stopped:
Here is an example:
# aptitude purge wesnoth-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
wesnoth-server{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 668kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 308709 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing wesnoth-server ...
Stopping Wesnoth server: wesnothdrm: cannot remove `/var/run/wesnothd.pid': No
such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript wesnoth-server, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing wesnoth-server (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
wesnoth-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Or just trying to upgrade:
# aptitude install wesnoth-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
wesnoth-server
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/290kB of archives. After unpacking 8192B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading changelogs...
Selecting previously deselected package wesnoth-server.
(Reading database ... 308710 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace wesnoth-server 1.1.7-1 (using
.../wesnoth-server_1.1.8-1_amd64.deb) ...
Stopping Wesnoth server: wesnothdrm: cannot remove `/var/run/wesnothd.pid': No
such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript wesnoth-server, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Stopping Wesnoth server: wesnothdrm: cannot remove `/var/run/wesnothd.pid': No
such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript wesnoth-server, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/wesnoth-server_1.1.8-1_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/wesnoth-server_1.1.8-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages wesnoth-server depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-10 GCC support library
ii libsdl-net1.2 1.2.5-7 network library for Simple DirectM
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-2 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-7 X11 client-side library
ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
wesnoth-server recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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