Bug#562372: mediatomb-daemon: Uninstallable

[Raúl Sánchez Siles]

Package: mediatomb-daemon
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software


Hello:

After having used mediatomb successfully for some time I decided to uninstall
it. I first purged mediatomb, but then I noticed that mediatomb-common and
mediatomb-daemon were still installed so I tried to uninstall them. I saw an
error which prevented total uninstallation, but it's more easily seen with this
command:

$ LANG=C sudo aptitude purge mediatomb-daemon
Reading package lists... Done                                                 
Building dependency tree                                                      
Reading state information... Done                                             
Reading extended state information... Done                                    
Initializing package states... Done                                           
The following packages will be REMOVED:                                       
  mediatomb-daemon{p}                                                         
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.       
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.                  
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]                                              
Writing extended state information... Done                                    
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory      
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory   
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory        
database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load.                          
(Reading database ... 181730 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mediatomb-daemon ...
Purging configuration files for mediatomb-daemon ...
/usr/sbin/deluser: The user `mediatomb' does not exist.
The group `mediatomb' does not exist.
dpkg-statoverrides: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 syntax error: unknown user 'mediatomb' in statoverride file
dpkg: error processing mediatomb-daemon (--purge):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mediatomb-daemon
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done

Once I have this message I can't install or uninstall anything with aptitude.
I'll try to work out what's happenning and get to a forced solution where
package management works again.

Thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mediatomb-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
pn  mediatomb-common              <none>     (no description available)

mediatomb-daemon recommends no packages.

mediatomb-daemon suggests no packages.