On Thursday 06 November 2008 14:26:29 COURTAUD Didier wrote: > - try to uninstall by dpkg -r httpd > > Same errors on > > invoke-rc.d: not a symlink: "/etc/rc2.d/S20httpd" > invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: "/etc/rc2.d/S20httpd" > > I definitevely cannot uninstall hhtpd ( anyone on this list has an idea ? ) > but it works and that is why I downloaded it ! I do not have an idea but I have seen the same problem. A user was having trouble installing GPE because it required updating a dependency (I can't remember which package, maybe libsoup or sqlite). But the existing package would not uninstall, with dpkg producing exactly these errors. These errors (which are actually coming from invoke-rc.d) cannot be overridden with any --force options on dpkg. After several iterations of trying to debug the problem by email, the only solution that I eventually found was to manually remove the package.prerm file from /var/lib/dpkg/info/. After that we were able to remove the broken package and install the new version. I had assumed that this was actually either some obscure packaging bug in the (obsolete) package that was trying to be removed or a file-system corruption. It is very interesting to see the problem reported for a completely different package, on a different system. Is it worth doing a fsck to check there is no filesystem corruption? If you look at /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d (which is a shell script), in the verifyrclink function, you can see that what is failing is: test -L "/etc/rc2.d/S20httpd" and test -f "/etc/rc2.d/S20httpd" I did not have access to my user's system and they just wanted a quick fix so I never got to look around the filesystem to see why those tests might be failing. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
