On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 21:34:32 +0000, pChan -- wrote: > I am trying to remove apache2. But before that, I did something stupid. I > "rm apache2" in /etc/init.d > > So now, if I try to remove apache2-mpm-worker... > sd-6340:/etc/init.d# apt-get remove apache2-mpm-worker > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > apache2 apache2-mpm-worker > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 8 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. > After unpacking 586kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > (Reading database ... 19200 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing apache2 ... > Removing apache2-mpm-worker ... > invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/apache2 not found. > dpkg: error processing apache2-mpm-worker (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 100 > Errors were encountered while processing: > apache2-mpm-worker > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > I have absolutely no idea what to do, as it depends on apache2.initd to > remove.
/etc/init.d/apache2 comes from package "apache2-common" (Sarge) or "apache2.2-common" (Etch and Sid). My proposed solution assumes that you are using Sarge; if you are using Etch/Sid then you have replace all instances of "apache2-common" with "apache2.2-common". I think your best option is to extract the missing file from the .deb package and to put it into /etc/init.d. First you have to see if the .deb file is still in your package cache. Its path will be something like /var/cache/apt/archives/apache2-common_<version-arch>.deb where <version-arch> is a string that denotes the version and your architecture (e.g. i386). You have to find the .deb file which corresponds to the currently installed version of apache2-common. If you cannot find the file you can try to download it again with apt-get --download-only apache2-common Next you have to extract the files from this package. You can do this with the command dpkg-deb -X /var/cache/apt/archives/apache2-common_<version-arch>.deb /tmp This will extract all files from the package to /tmp. Your missing initscript should be at /tmp/etc/init.d/apache Maybe you will be able to remove apache if you copy this file to /etc/init.d. Make sure that you set reasonable ownership and file permissions, similar to those of the other scripts in /etc/init.d. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]