Bug#270967: gconf2 try's to remove /etc completely when purging

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Hi,

Am Fr den 10. Sep 2004 um 13:41 schriebst Du:
> You've purged only this one ? Do you remember which version of the
> package it was ?

No. But see below...

> Can you still reproduce the problem ?

Yes, I did on a other host (sid, newest version, all my hosts have "chattr +i /").
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xxxx:~# dpkg --force-all --purge gconf2
dpkg: gconf2: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
 libgnome2-common depends on gconf2 (>= 2.6.0-1).
 libgnomevfs2-common depends on gconf2 (>= 2.6.0).
 libgconf2-4 depends on gconf2 (>= 2.6.4-2).
(Reading database ... 94571 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gconf2 ...
Purging configuration files for gconf2 ...
rmdir: `/etc': Permission denied
dpkg: error processing gconf2 (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gconf2
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When there is somethink inside of /etc/gconf then no problem. But when there is
nothing more inside this bug happens.

When I then recreate /etc/gconfd/2 and make a "chattr -i /" the purge work well
without erasing something from /etc.

As the /etc gets not really deleted, i think the severity can be lowered to
'normal'.

Regards
   Klaus
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