Re: dpkg purge problem

On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:15:19AM +0300, Sasho Angelov wrote:
> > When I try to purge old linux image:
> >
> > sudo dpkg --purge --force-all linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7
>
> Why --force-all ?
>

Without --force-all the result is the same.
>
> Which debconf frontend do you use? I've had that happen to me when I
> "accidentally" used the GNOME front-end. Not a problem, unless you're on
> a virtual console and DISPLAY is set - then it shows the GUI on the X
> display that I'm not looking at.... Took me a while to figure out...

I install this package with dpkg in virtual console. When i try to purge this package with stopped X server the result is not different .

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