Bug#884856: apacheds: deinstallation impossible without first configuring it

[Carsten Weber]

Package: apacheds
Version: 2.0.0~M15-4
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

fresh installation using 9.3.0-amd64-netinst, using default options where
possible
then installed apacheds and just wanted to get rid of it again


   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

apt-get install apacheds
apt-get purge apacheds


   * What was the outcome of this action?

deinstallation failed

root at debian:~# apt-get purge apacheds
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libantlr-java libapache-directory-api-java libapache-directory-jdbm-java
libapacheds-i18n-java
  libapacheds-java libapacheds-kerberos-codec-java libcommons-io-java
libcommons-lang-java
  libcommons-pool-java libjetty9-java libmavibot-java libmina2-java
libslf4j-java
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apacheds*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 172 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 129867 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing apacheds (2.0.0~M15-4) ...
Failed to stop apacheds.service: Unit apacheds.service not loaded.
invoke-rc.d: initscript apacheds, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing package apacheds (--remove):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 5
Errors were encountered while processing:
 apacheds
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root at debian:~#



   * What outcome did you expect instead?

well, a removed package


Regards,
Carsten



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages apacheds depends on:
ii  adduser                                          3.115
ii  default-jre-headless [java7-runtime-headless]    2:1.8-58
ii  libapacheds-java                                 2.0.0~M15-4
ii  openjdk-8-jre-headless [java7-runtime-headless]  8u151-b12-1~deb9u1

apacheds recommends no packages.

apacheds suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/apacheds/config.ldif [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/apacheds/config.ldif'
/etc/apacheds/log4j.properties [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/apacheds/log4j.properties'

-- no debconf information