Bug#479401: package removal fails if gdm is not running

[Josselin Mouette]

tag 479401 + unreproducible
thanks

Le dimanche 04 mai 2008 à 12:32 -0400, Noah Meyerhans a écrit :
> Package: gdm
> Version: 2.20.5-1
> Severity: important
> 
> When trying to remove gdm, which is not currently running, I get the
> following:
> 
> streaker:~# dpkg -r gdm
> (Reading database ... 156521 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing gdm ...
> Stopping GNOME Display Manager: gdminvoke-rc.d: initscript gdm, action "stop" failed.
> dpkg: error processing gdm (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Scheduling reload of GNOME Display Manager configuration: gdminvoke-rc.d: initscript gdm, action "reload" failed.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  gdm
> 
> In prerm, the call to invoke-rc.d to stop gdm should probably be
> followed with "|| true".  Or maybe there should be a check to verify
> that gdm is actually running before calling invoke-rc.d.

I’m sorry, but I can’t reproduce that. In fact, if you look at gdm.init,
you’ll see that it never fails for the stop action, so I don’t
understand how you could get this error.

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