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

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 01:58:22AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > 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.

Well, it happened; I'm not making this up.  I wonder about the second
part of the dpkg output, where it says "Scheduling reload of GNOME
Display Manager configuration" and calls the init script with the reload
option.  I can't imagine why "dpkg -r" would be triggering a reload,
though.

noah

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