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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 11 mai 2008 à 18:42 -0400, Noah Meyerhans a écrit :
> 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’m not saying that, but I don’t have a clue.

Is your /etc/init.d/gdm script customized one way or another?

> 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.

This is when the old postinst is called in abort-upgrade mode. This one
as well should never fail with the init script as currently written.

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