Hi, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >After a recent upgrade of some potato packages, xcontrib is in a very >broken state where I can neither upgrade nor remove it. > >dpkg reports: > >$ dpkg -l xcontrib >Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge >| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed >|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad >) >||/ Name Version Description >+++-===============-==============-=========================================== >= >pHR xcontrib 3.3.2-5.1 XFree contributed clients. > >Trying to upgrade causes the post-removal script to do something which >grabs all the memory and swap in my computer and ends up segfaulting. >dpkg --force-remove-reinstrq also makes this happen. > >There must be some way to manually remove all traces of xcontrib and try >installing it again, but I haven't found any mention of how to >accomplish this. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
I manually uninstalled several packages using the information in /var/lib/dpkg/info. I deleted all files in <package>.list and had a closer look at the other <package>.* files to see whether there was more to do - in most cases there wasn't. Oh, by the way, it worked every time :-) Good luck! CU Stefan
