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pxe package

pxe fail to remove when updating from 6.06 to 6.10

Bug #63704 reported by Laurent GUERBY
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pxe (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
pxe (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pxe

The update manager fails upgrade with a message about pxe, when trying to remove it with apt-get I get:

$ apt-get remove pxe
.Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  pxe
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  pxe
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 143kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 149410 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing pxe ...
Stopping pxe: invoke-rc.d: initscript pxe, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing pxe (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting pxe: invoke-rc.d: initscript pxe, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
 pxe
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Laurent GUERBY (laurent-guerby) wrote :

dpkg -l|grep pxe
rF pxe 1.4.2-4 free PX daemon

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Laurent GUERBY (laurent-guerby) wrote :

For some reason, today (after a reboot) apt-get remove pxe just worked.

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Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report.

I'm closing this bug because I believe it has been fixed in Feisty.

pxe (1.4.2-5) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New email address.
   * Splittet out pidfile modifications from 03-gcc4.dpatch to 03-pidfile.dpatch.
   * Adapted patch from Lars Wirzenius <email address hidden> for unstable:
     - debian/postinst: Created. In addition to the usual stuff added by
       debhelper, we now create a Debian-pxe user.
     - debian/prerm: Created. Handle a failed upgrade from a previous version by
       manually killing the daemon and removing the pid file.
     - debian/postrm: Remove /var/run/pxe, /var/run/pxe/pxe.pid, and
       /var/run/pxe.pid.
     - debian/init.d: Create /var/run/pxe before starting the daemon, and chown
       it to the Debian-pxe user. Also, wait for the pid file to disappear when
       stopping (or restarting), instead of blindly assuming that one second is
       enough. Further, allow start-stop-daemon to not do anything (--oknodo)
       when doing "start", "stop", or the stopping part of "restart".
     - Closes: #376501.

Changed in pxe:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in pxe:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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