Package: icecast2 Version: 2.3.2-5 Severity: serious Tags: sid squeeze This bug was originally reported on Launchpad, see https://launchpad.net/bugs/481060 for more information. I've reproduced this in an AMD64 sid chroot, dpkg's terminal log follows:
--- (sid_amd64)r...@debomatic64:/home/quadrispro# aptitude purge icecast2 The following packages will be REMOVED: icecast2{p} libspeex1{u} libtheora0{u} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1661 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] (Reading database ... 48206 files and directories currently installed.) Removing icecast2 ... Stopping icecast2: icecast2. Purging configuration files for icecast2 ... Removing user `icecast2' ... Warning: group `icecast2' has no more members. userdel: user icecast2 is currently logged in /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel icecast2' returned error code 8. Exiting. dpkg: error processing icecast2 (--purge): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db ... configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: icecast2 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: (sid_amd64)r...@debomatic64:/home/quadrispro# --- Steps to reproduce (on squeeze/sid): 1. aptitude install icecast2 2. Run icecast2: a. Modify /etc/default/icecast2 and set ENABLE to true b. /etc/init.d/icecast2 start 3. aptitude purge icecast2 OR aptitude reinstall icecast2 Although I have not performed any upgrade test, I bet it would happen on upgrade too. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers maverick-updates APT policy: (500, 'maverick-updates'), (500, 'maverick-security'), (500, 'maverick') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org