Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59...@care2.com> writes:
> David Zelinsky wrote:
>> ... Worse, the linux-image package did not install properly, with
>> some part of the post-install script returning errors (zz-update-grub).
>> The rest of the dist-upgrade appeared to succeed, but the
>> linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 package is in a half-installed state.
>>
>> I tried removing the offending package ("apt-get remove") but got the
>> same error from the post-remove script.
>>
> <snip>
> what happens if you 'dpkg -P linux-image-2.6.32-5-686'
Same as running 'apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.32-5-686'. The problem
was in the postrm script, which as Bob Proulx points out, gets run
by 'dpkg --remove', which is called by either of the above.
Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes:
> ... You can browse the script this way:
>
> less /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-5-686.prerm
>
> That script is going away when you remove the package. So hacking it
> to avoid the error seems like the best solution. It is simply calling
> all of the script parts at /etc/kernel/prerm.d/* and it is the
> /etc/kernel/prerm.d/zz-update-grub script that is giving you problem.
<snip>
> I would hack the /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-5-686.prerm
> perl script with "exit(0);" at the top right after the #!/usr/bin/perl
> line. Or I would remove grub-pc to remove the zz-update-grub script.
> Probably hacking the first is most direct. It all depends.
It was the '.postrm' script, not '.prerm'. That script does not go away
with 'apt-get remove', but it does with 'apt-get purge' (or 'dpkg -P').
In any case, I took Bob's suggestion to hobble the script with an exit
statement near the beginning, and that did the trick! I was able to
purge the package, and apt-get now reports the system up to date.
I also checked that no linux-image package is installed, so presumably
this won't happen again. But next time I'll also scrutinize the
proposed actions more closely to be sure.
Thanks for all suggestions.
-David
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