Package: vsftpd Version: 2.2.2-3 Severity: normal I installed vsftpd, and then realized i wanted to make sure that the offered directory was on its own filesystem, so that uploads were properly restrained.
So i made a new logical volume, and mounted it on /srv/ftp. I subsequently decided i wanted to remove vsftpd, and got this error: 0 pip:~# aptitude remove vsftpd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information... Done Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: vsftpd 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 459kB will be freed. Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 182569 files and directories currently installed.) Removing vsftpd ... Stopping FTP server: vsftpd. rmdir: failed to remove `/srv/ftp' dpkg: error processing vsftpd (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: vsftpd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information... Done Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Reading task descriptions... Done 255 pip:~# my workaround was: umount /srv/ftp aptitude remove vsftpd mkdir /srv/ftp mount /srv/ftp but this seems like it should not have been necessary. --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages vsftpd depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcap2 1:2.17-2 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-2 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam0g 1.1.1-2 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8m-2 SSL shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-18 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii netbase 4.40 Basic TCP/IP networking system Versions of packages vsftpd recommends: ii logrotate 3.7.8-4 Log rotation utility vsftpd suggests no packages. -- debconf information: vsftpd/username: ftp vsftpd/directory: /srv/ftp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org