On Apr 26, Bob Nielsen wrote > I just installed Debian-1.2 on a machine with no mouse. gpm was > installed as part of the base system. I configured it to /dev/null, > since there is no mouse, but figured it would be petter to remove it > altogether. I am trying to remove it with gpm --purge, but get the > message: > > dpkg error processing gpm (--purge) > subprocess preremoval script returned error exit status 137 > Starting gpm -m /dev/null -t bare > Errors were encountered while processing: > gpm
This is an old release of gpm which is broken :( edit /etc/init.d/gpm and remove the entry "killall gpm". After that you can killall -9 gpm to kill it and then dpkg --purge gpm to remove it completely > Killing gpm before running dpkg didn't help. The problem is that /etc/init.d/gpm is called gpm, too. So a killall gpm would kill this script instead of the real daemon. Sorry, my fault. :-( Joey -- / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
