Cannot remove the lighttpd pkg from Edgy Eft

I had lighttpd install on dapper drake. After I upgrade to Edgy I see the orange update avaliable icon on top right corner for lighttpd. I tried to upgrade and it fails with the following error.

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/lighttpd_1.4.13~r1370-1ubuntu1_i386.deb: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

The orange icon won't go away since it thinks I have a pkg available to update. I tried to remove using dpkg, apt-get and synaptic. Still failing to remove. Not sure how to clean up this pkg.

Error while trying to remove using Synaptic Package Manager:

E: lighttpd: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

Have you tried to kill the server before to uninsall it ?

On 10/26/06, Adrians <email address hidden> wrote:
> Have you tried to kill the server before to uninsall it ?

The lighttpd is not running according to `ps aux | grep http'

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Asif Iqbal
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lighttpd is not running.

Try to start lighttpd and then remove the package, this seems to be an error in the dapper prerm script.

On 10/26/06, Lukas Fittl <email address hidden> wrote:
> Try to start lighttpd and then remove the package, this seems to be an
> error in the dapper prerm script.

That did it.

Excellent!

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Asif Iqbal
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The edgy init.d script is just fine, this is a problem with the dapper script, bugfix should be uploaded soon to dapper-updates. Patch for this can be found at bug #59269.

Accepted into dapper-proposed (although, in future, please provide a better description of the change in debian/changelog; a reasonable guideline is to concentrate more on the effects of the change than on the details of how you changed it). Please test, if possible via Simon Law and the QA team.

this bug still remain in dapper. last package for dapper update also failed, because lighttpd was not running at the time of update.

works for me with the package in dapper-proposed.

lighttpd_1.4.11-3ubuntu3.2.dsc accepted into dapper-proposed.

I too was able to remove lighttpd using the dapper-proposed package.

just an FYI.

Debdiff for going from dapper-proposed to dapper-updates

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal:

sudo apt-get clean

Then try performing the update again. This will likely resolve your issue, but the failure can be caused by filesystem or memory corruption. So please also run a fsck on your filesystem(s) and a memory test. If this does resolve your bug please set its status to Invalid. Thanks in advance!