On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 20:04 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > mail:~# dpkg -r postfix-policyd > > (Reading database ... 18557 files and directories currently installed.) > > Removing postfix-policyd ... > > dpkg: error processing postfix-policyd (--remove): > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10 > > grep: /etc/postfix-policyd.conf: No such file or directory > > Starting Postfix greylisting policy daemon: start-stop-daemon: --start > > needs --exec or --startas > > Try `start-stop-daemon --help' for more information. > > invoke-rc.d: initscript postfix-policyd, action "start" failed. > > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > postfix-policyd > > [ snip: the same dpkg error when trying to "apt-get remove" ] > > The first thing that seems to go wrong is that grep cannot find > something in the non-existent file /etc/postfix-policyd.conf. According > to apt-file this package should contain the file > /usr/share/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd.conf. I would try to copy it > to /etc and hope that this enables dpkg to remove the package.
Hi, I'm not getting the same error any more, but it's still complaining: mail:~# cp /usr/share/postfix-policyd/postfix-policyd.conf /etc/ mail:~# apt-get remove postfix-policyd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: postfix-policyd 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 336kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 20229 files and directories currently installed.) Removing postfix-policyd ... dpkg: error processing postfix-policyd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: postfix-policyd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) mail:~# There isn't anything useful in the logs, so it's difficult to know what exactly is going wrong. Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
