Package: timidity Version: 2.13.2-7.1 Severity: serious I'm pretty sure this bug is policy violation, just I don't know which section(s).
The output below should be pretty self-explanatory (timidity is not running when I attempt purge): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LANG=C sudo aptitude purge timidity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: timidity{p} The following packages will be REMOVED: timidity{p} 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1987kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 159595 files and directories currently installed.) Removing timidity ... Stopping TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation: (failed). invoke-rc.d: initscript timidity, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing timidity (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation: ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory error in snd_seq_open timidity. Errors were encountered while processing: timidity E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Yes, timidity does not start on my system due to misconfiguration & other reasons but this should not prevent me from purging/removing/upgrading timidity on my system. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 Locale: LANG=lt_LT, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT (charmap=ISO-8859-13) Versions of packages timidity depends on: ii libartsc0 1.5.6-1 aRts sound system C support librar ii libasound2 1.0.13-2 ALSA library ii libaudio2 1.8-3 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libesd0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libflac7 1.1.2-6 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.6-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjack0.100.0-0 0.101.1-2 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libogg0 1.1.3-2 Ogg Bitstream Library ii liboggflac3 1.1.2-6 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libvorbis0a 1.1.2.dfsg-1.2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisenc2 1.1.2.dfsg-1.2 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-6 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages timidity recommends: ii freepats 20060219-1 Free patch set for MIDI audio synt -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]