Ubuntu
netkit-base package

[feisty] dpkg refuses to uninstall netkit-inetd due to script error

Bug #120080 reported by Morten Kjeldgaard
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netkit-base (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

When trying to remove netkit-inetd I get the following error message:

Removing netkit-inetd ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/netkit-inetd.prerm: 5: /etc/init.d/inetd: not found
dpkg: error processing netkit-inetd (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 netkit-inetd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0) wrote :

It is possible to recover -- get dpkg -r to complete -- by doing

touch /etc/init.d/inetd
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/inetd

dpkg -r netkit-inetd

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Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0) wrote :

This patch will call update-rc.d in prerm, instead of calling /etc/init.d/inetd directly, allowing update-rc.d to deal gracefully with the situation. Thus, the above situation should be avoided.

The patch applies to distributions feisty and earlier.

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Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0) wrote :

Patch submitted

Changed in netkit-base:
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Server Team: could you please take a look at it?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Søren: can you take a look at it?

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

That should ceratinly be "invoke-rc.d", not "update-rc.d", and it needs to be "|| true"d. Looking at it now.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Oh, that's in fact obsolete. It's only in Feisty, and this will go EOL in a couple of days.

Changed in netkit-base:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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