Package: spamass-milter Version: 0.3.1-2 Severity: important the package of spamass-milter cannot be removed with apt-get (or dpkg) from the system if spamass-milter is not running. Th eremove scripts appearntly try to stop the program from running first, end if this fails (it was not running to begin with!) the remove process aborts.
the output of the command follows: ~# apt-get remove spamass-milter Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: spamass-milter 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 164kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 28350 files and directories currently installed.) Removing spamass-milter ... Stopping Sendmail milter plugin for SpamAssassin: No /usr/sbin/spamass-milter found running; none killed. invoke-rc.d: initscript spamass-milter, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing spamass-milter (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting Sendmail milter plugin for SpamAssassin: /usr/sbin/spamass-milter Errors were encountered while processing: spamass-milter E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages spamass-milter depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libmilter0 8.13.8-3 Sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii spamc 3.1.7-2 Client for SpamAssassin spam filte Versions of packages spamass-milter recommends: ii postfix 2.3.7-3 A high-performance mail transport ii spamassassin 3.1.7-2 Perl-based spam filter using text -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
