[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#450593: vmware-server: cannot remove package (missing vmware_product_name)

[Jon Dowland]

Package: vmware-package
Version: 0.19
Severity: important

# apt-get remove vmware-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  vmware-server
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 37.9MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
h(Reading database ... 183231 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing vmware-server ...
/etc/init.d/vmware-server: line 172: vmware_product_name: command not found
Warning: Unable to find 's main database /etc/vmware/locations.

invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-server, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-server (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


My machine is a bit of an unholy mess: I installed the
generated vmware-server package but I already had a
non-debian package version of vwmare-workstation installed.
That might be related. I removed vmware-workstation before
trying to uninstall this package (so probably in the wrong
order)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages vmware-package depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.3-7    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debhelper                     5.0.60     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.7     package building tools for Debian
ii  fakeroot                      1.8.4      Gives a fake root environment
ii  file                          4.21-3     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  make                          3.81-3     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  module-assistant              0.10.11    tool to make module package creati
ii  python                        2.4.4-6    An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages vmware-package recommends:
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.20.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.3-7          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcairomm-1.0-1        1.4.2-1          C++ wrappers for Cairo (shared lib
ii  libcroco3               0.6.1-1          a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libexpat1               1.95.8-4         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.91-1         generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a      2.14.2-1         C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.20.1.1-1       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c 2.20.0-1         C++ wrappers for libgnomecanvas2 (
ii  libgsf-1-114            1.14.7-1         Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a       1:2.12.1-1       C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.18.3-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-3   PNG library - runtime
ii  librsvg2-2              2.18.2-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsexy2                0.1.11-2         collection of additional GTK+ widg
ii  libsexymm2              0.1.9-2          collection of additional gtkmm wid
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a      2.0.17-2         type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libssl0.9.7             0.9.7k-3.1       SSL shared libraries
ii  libview2                0.6.0-2          VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widge
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                 1:1.0.3-2        X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.9-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxdmcp6               1:1.0.2-2        X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3              1:4.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxft2                 2.1.12-2         FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.3-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.30.dfsg-2    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.2-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.4-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxtst6                2:1.0.3-1        X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime

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