Hi Josh,
I had the same problem, and I found a work around for it.
in the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/setmixer.postrm
is the command: update-rc.d setmixer remove
which, when executed from command line gives a strange error.
linuxhost:~# update-rc.d -n setmixer remove
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/setmixer exists during rc.d purge (use -f to
force)
So I tried to force it (note, the -n makes it only pretend to do stuff), but
got the same
error.
linuxhost:~# update-rc.d -n -f setmixer remove
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/setmixer exists during rc.d purge (continuing)
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/setmixer ...
/etc/rc0.d/K21setmixer
/etc/rc1.d/K21setmixer
/etc/rc2.d/S21setmixer
/etc/rc3.d/K21setmixer
/etc/rc5.d/S21setmixer
/etc/rc6.d/K21setmixer
So I tried just moving the init.d script out of the way, and got no funny error.
linuxhost:~# mv /etc/init.d/setmixer /etc/init.d/setmixer.old
linuxhost:~# update-rc.d -n -f setmixer remove
Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/setmixer ...
/etc/rc0.d/K21setmixer
/etc/rc1.d/K21setmixer
/etc/rc2.d/S21setmixer
/etc/rc3.d/K21setmixer
/etc/rc5.d/S21setmixer
/etc/rc6.d/K21setmixer
I then left it out of the way, ran dselect again, and it went through without
any errors. I
then moved it back:
linuxhost:~# mv /etc/init.d/setmixer.old /etc/init.d/setmixer
And it is still working (the start-stop script that is), and dselect has no
complaints.
HTH
Derek Loree
Josh McKinney wrote:
> I am having troubles with the setmixer package in sid. No matter what I try
> to do, be it
> apt-get reinstall, or dpkg --force-all install, remove, etc. It gives me the
> same error.
>
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/setmixer_27DEC94-6_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/setmixer_27DEC94-6_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Is there any way I can fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
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