on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:18:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > As has happened sometimes in the past, I've got a package that seems to be > in "trouble," and I can't figure out what to do with it ... since it never > -really- seems to get all the way installed. I'd like to just do away with > it entirely. > > The package in question is the MUD server aime. Here is what I'm currently > getting back from apt-get dist-upgrade: > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages have been kept back > cygnus-stylesheets filters scilab > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 614kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main > aime 0.59-3 [614kB] > Fetched 614kB in 10s (59.3kB/s) > (Reading database ... 142823 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace aime 0.59-2 (using .../archives/aime_0.59-3_i386.deb) ... > Stopping MUD Server: dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error > exit status 1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You might want to take a look at this script (it lives in /var/lib/dpkg/info/aim.prerm), and figure out what it's trying to do.
You *can* edit this file and modify it if you can see what needs to be
fixed.
Might also check the bugs filed on aime. See 'bugview', part of the
'bug' package. In this case it appears there are none.
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> Stopping MUD Server: dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/aime_0.59-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Starting MUD Server: /etc/init.d/aime: line 68: 11304 File size limit
> exceededstart-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec
> $DAEMON -- -q
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 153
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/aime_0.59-3_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Other general suggestions:
$ dpkg --configure -a # try to (re)configure all
# missing/unconfigured packags.
Cheers.
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