[olug] Broken Freenet and broken apt-get

[Eric Penne]

The problem is that this package has been doing this for about a month,
through 2 updates.

Here's the output from what you told me:

tigger:/home/epenne# dpkg --purge freenet
dpkg: error processing freenet (--purge):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 freenet

So I checked out reinstall options. Here is the outptu from that:

tigger:/home/epenne# dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -r freenet
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database ... 88177 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing freenet ...
Stopping Freenet nodestart-stop-daemon: user `freenet' not found

invoke-rc.d: initscript freenet, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing freenet (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
                               subprocess post-installation script
killed by signal (Interrupt)
                                                                       
                       Errors were encountered while processing:
 freenet


I think I need to manually remove it.  Is there a file that I can
remove all traces of freenet from and have apt-get magically work?

Eric




--- Christopher Cashell <topher at zyp.org> wrote:
> At Thu, 27 Feb 03, Unidentified Flying Banana Eric Penne, said:
> > I need to remove freenet altogether.  How can I manually remove
> this
> > horrible install of freenet.
> 
> Try 'dpkg --purge package-name'.
> 
> Alternately, you can prolly leave the package in a broken state and
> try
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade again in a few days, and see if
> there
> is a new, fixed, package available.
> 
> Such is the danger in using Debian unstable (which I assume you're
> doing, as these kinds of things very rarely occur in testing, and
> almost
> never in stable).  Alternatley, you can try manually searching for a
> different package version on the Debian repositories, to see if
> that'll
> fix it.  Checking the package's bug reports might offer a solution,
> too.
> 
> > Eric
> 
> -- 
> | Christopher
> +------------------------------------------------+
> | A: No.                                         |
> | Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? |
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