Package: sddm Version: 0.14.0-1 Severity: serious
Dear Maintainer, here is the problem: # apt purge sddm sddm-theme-breeze Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: sddm* sddm-theme-breeze* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 2 595 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 261837 files and directories currently installed.) Removing sddm (0.14.0-1) .....................................................................................................] Please be sure to run "dpkg-reconfigure gdm3". Removing sddm-theme-breeze (4:5.8.5-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... (Reading database ... 261663 files and directories currently installed.) Purging configuration files for sddm (0.14.0-1) ... Removing user `sddm' ... Warning: group `sddm' has no more members. userdel: user sddm is currently used by process 658 /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel sddm' returned error code 8. Exiting. Could not remove sddm user. /usr/sbin/delgroup: `sddm' still has `sddm' as their primary group! Could not remove sddm group. userdel: user sddm is currently used by process 658 /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel sddm' returned error code 8. Exiting. /usr/sbin/delgroup: `sddm' still has `sddm' as their primary group! dpkg: error processing package sddm (--purge): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 128 Errors were encountered while processing: sddm E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Stopping the service before the purge fixes the problem. -- Laurent.