On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:04:19PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > While uninstalling gdm, the process hung, and I stupidly Ctrl-C'd > it and then tried again. After that, I've been unable to uninstall > or reinstall xdm, gdm, or wdm. Here's the type errors I'm getting: > > Setting up gdm (2.2.5.3-2) ... > dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > Setting up wdm (1.20-13) ... > dpkg: error processing wdm (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > Setting up xdm (4.1.0-13) ... > dpkg: error processing xdm (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > Errors were encountered while processing: > gdm > wdm > xdm > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > I suspect it has to do with update-alternatives, but it's beyond > me to figure out how to get it fixed. Anyone have any fixes they > can toss my way?
I haven't got a fix, but I hope I can help you along...
Have a look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.* - especially
xdm.config
gdm.config
wdm.config
If my (volatile) memory is correct, dpkg will invoke these in the
configure stage. It looks like they give a non-zero exit code.
To track down what's up, you may want to add a
set -x
somewhere along the top.
HTH
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