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Re: dpkg purge problem

From: Bob Proulx <bob(at)proulx.com>
Date: Wed Aug 01 2007 - 18:48:24 EDT

Sasho Angelov wrote:
> When I purge other linux-images everything is fine.

Hmm... It is hard to debug remotely.

If you are at the end of the possibilities then I would simply disable the prerm and postrm scripts entirely. This is a serious "force" action but if you have exhausted your other options then this is probably the best that is left to you.

Edit this file:

sudo editor /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7.postrm

Change the script so that it is simply the following:

#!/bin/sh
exit 0

That can't fail and therefore the dpkg --purge should succeed. I believe the postinst script is the oen that calls update-grub and would match your output and so should be the script that was hanging. If any remnants of that linux kernel are left after being --purged then you will need to manually find them and remove them since this bypasses the normal package scripts that do the final cleanup.

Do you need help?

Bob

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