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

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:31:21AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > 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?

No, not at all.  This happened on a fairly fresh lenny system, installed
just a couple of days earier with the d-i beta.  I used it for a few
days with GNOME before deciding to switch back to my preferred KDE
environment, which is when I experienced the problem with gdm.  I had
initially removed the GNOME packages using aptitude in single user mode,
and gdm failed to remove.  After still failing to remove the package
with dpkg -r, I submitted this bug report and removed the package by
inserting "exit 0" early in the prerm script.  IIRC I had installed KDE
before removing GNOME.

Since, of course, I no longer have gdm installed, I'll probably have
trouble replicating this problem.  I'll see if I can find time to
install a qemu system or something and try to follow similar steps...

noah


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