Hi guys,
I am unable to uninstall x2gotrinitybindings.
Its prerm script contains
case "$1" in configure) rm -f /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock mv /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock.trinity /opt/trinity/bin/kdesktop_lock ;;
abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure) ;; *) echo "postinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2 exit 1 ;;esac
which always breaks with the catch-all condition as uninstalling it passes "remove":
apt-get remove x2gotrinitybindings Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: x2gotrinitybindings 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded. After this operation, 156 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 121281 files and directories currently installed.) Removing x2gotrinitybindings ... postinst called with unknown argument `remove' dpkg: error processing x2gotrinitybindings (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: x2gotrinitybindings E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Trying to reinstall it breaks as well:
apt-get install --reinstall x2gotrinitybindings
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/17.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package x2gotrinitybindings.
(Reading database ... 121281 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace x2gotrinitybindings 0.0.0.1+squeeze~main~10~build1
(using .../x2gotrinitybindings_0.0.0.1+squeeze~main~10~build1_all.deb) ...
postinst called with unknown argument upgrade' dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... postinst called with unknown argument failed-upgrade'
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/x2gotrinitybindings_0.0.0.1+squeeze~main~10~build1_all.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while
processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x2gotrinitybindings_0.0.0.1+squeeze~main~10~build1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
And I believe postinst contains similar code.
Please fix this. And I think we need some kind of check that in future, such code doesn't end up in the stable repository (maybe a test box that does apt-get install --reinstall <packagename> and checks for errors/warnings in the output before a package goes into stable?).
Kind Regards, Stefan