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

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 06:59:11 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:

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

did you manage to try and reproduce this bug?  If not I think it should
be closed since it hasn't been reported by other people and I can't see
anything wrong with the gdm init script.

Thanks,
Julien