On Saturday 01 July 2006 11:14, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:24:08 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Monday 26 June 2006 16:35, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > What exactly happens now if you try to start the doodle daemon again > > > yourself? (Starting it again should generate a new PID file.) > > > > That is the weird thing, which I fail to understand; there is no PID > > file /var/run/doodled.pid when doodled is acrually running. As I said > > that is certainly the problem for the update script which cannot stop > > doodled with "/etc/init.d/doodled stop" > > Did you make any changes to /etc/init.d/doodled or to > /etc/default/doodle, None; I avoid changes as long as I don't understand the stuff fully.
> is your installation of the "doodle" package > broken? I cannot say this for sure. Both doodle-0.6.5-1 and doodled-0.6.5-1 worked so far. I realized only a problem when attempting to update to 0.6.5-3 > Otherwise you might have found a new bug in the doodled package. [snippety-snip] > > Maybe the problem is fixed in version 0.6.5-3 of the package. You can > try to castrate the pre-removal script and force the upgrade. For this > you have to edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/doodled.prerm. > Find the line > > invoke-rc.d doodled stop || exit $? > > and change it to > > /bin/true || exit $? > > This should get rid of the above error and will hopefully allow the > upgrade to complete. (Kill all doodled processes yourself before you try > the upgrade again.) The modified prerm script will then be replaced by > the one from the new version of the package anyway. This worked for me! > > -- > Regards, > Florian You saved me from becoming bald ;-) The installation went through now without errors and doodled was started. What I still do not understand is why I don't have /var/run/doodled.pid ... well ... Thank you very much indeed and kind regards, Eike -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE Casilla de Correo 1519 Asuncion / Paraguay Tel.: 595-21-578698 FAX: 595-21-578690 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
