Bug#278537: libgnomevfs2-common: failure to remove
Colin S. Miller
"Colin S. Miller" <csmiller@iname.com>, 278537@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:13:38 +0100
Package: libgnomevfs2-common
Version: 2.6.2-2
Severity: normal
When I tried to remove gnome-mime-data, apt-get removed libgnomevfs2-common
however this failed as I had already removed gnome-conf.
Sesson log:-
debian:~# apt-get --purge remove "gnome-mime-data"
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-mime-data* libgnomevfs2-0* libgnomevfs2-common* librsvg2-2*
librsvg2-common*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 7516kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 95137 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libgnomevfs2-common ...
Failed to access configuration source(s): Failed: Could not make
directory `/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing libgnomevfs2-common (--purge):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing librsvg2-2 ...
Purging configuration files for librsvg2-2 ...
Removing librsvg2-common ...
Updating the gdk-pixbuf loaders list for GTK+-2.4.0...done.
Purging configuration files for librsvg2-common ...
dpkg: gnome-mime-data: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
request:
libgnomevfs2-common depends on gnome-mime-data.
Removing gnome-mime-data ...
Purging configuration files for gnome-mime-data ...
dpkg: libgnomevfs2-0: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
request:
libgnomevfs2-common depends on libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.6.0).
Removing libgnomevfs2-0 ...
Purging configuration files for libgnomevfs2-0 ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
libgnomevfs2-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
debian:~#
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-common depends on:
ii gconf2 2.6.4-2 GNOME configuration database syste
pn gnome-mime-data Not found.
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-7 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.4-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.7-1 The GLib library of C routines
pn libgnomevfs2-0 Not found.
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsmbclient 3.0.7-1 shared library that allows applica
ii libxml2 2.6.11-3 GNOME XML library
ii shared-mime-info 0.15-1 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-1 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information