On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:10:07 -0500 Drew Engelbrecht <naturalt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed some abandoned configuration files have been left lying > around my harddrive, which by their existence have a (sometimes > negative) effect on my upgraded system. They were installed by > packages in lenny, but would not be installed in a fresh installation > of squeeze. Despite unmodified configuration files getting replaced > by newer ones when upgrading, it seems that if they don't belong to > the same package in squeeze as in lenny, then they are not removed... > even though that file may be unmodified from the original (and now > useless or even harmful.) > > For example, there's the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that dpkg-reconfigure > doesn't change or remove in squeeze (and doesn't add, if there's not > one there.) > Also, there was a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ for wacom input. > Something like 50 errors would show up when I booted, because of this > file. > > I noticed that using the "loate" command for the > xserver-xorg-input-wacom package listed the problematic rules file, > so my system knew that it was there and associated with the package. > I tried purging the wacom package and reinstalling > xserver-xorg-input-all. The file and the problem went away. > Unfortunately, I don't think that it's feasible to purge and > reinstall the entire installation base though ;-) so I'm still > looking for a general solution. > > Is there a way to remove deprecated files like these automatically? > I'm having some minor issues with squeeze, and I can't help but > wonder if there are still some "zombie" config files that are > creating issues here by making my system less like a clean install of > squeeze. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Drew > Perhaps 'aptitude search ~c' will fill your needs. It will search for unused configuration files. http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html#searchConfigFiles ?config-files, ~c Matches packages which have been removed, but whose configuration files remain on the system (ie, they were removed but not purged). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110113205627.0fd2f734@t61.debian-linux
