On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:12:20AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I have a problem of dselect message. > I was trying to remove kdm. However the following error message appeared, and > I can not go further now. Please somebody give me any suggestion. > > ---error message------------------------------------- > The following packages will be REMOVED: > kdm > 20 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 15 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/9822kB of archives. After unpacking 435kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... 30212 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing kdm ... > dpkg - warning: while removing kdm, directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm' not > empty so not removed. > dpkg - warning: while removing kdm, directory `/etc/X11/kdm' not empty so not > removed. > /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postrm: line 15: syntax error near unexpected token > `kdm' > dpkg: error processing kdm (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 > start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/bin/kdm: No such file or directory
A quick and dirty hack is to look over the postrm script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postrm), and either fix it or do what it does manually and delete it. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
