I decided to try out backuppc and set it up for a trial... decided it way more complicated and overdone for my needs and uninstalled it.
Only it didn't really get uninstalled. I don't remember now all the steps I took but do recall it involved reinstalling it at some point to try to get it cleanly uninstalled. At this point, some aspect of that mess is blocking updates. I just tried to run updates from the gui update manager and get this fatal error: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: syntax error: unknown user 'backuppc' in statoverride file Error in function: At this point I can neither install nor uninstall backuppc to get that further cleaned up... `aptitude search backuppc' reveals Cd backuppc - high-performance, enterprise-grade system `C' half configured `d' delete remove How can I get fully rid of any trace of that obnoxious program? The --purge switch ends in failure messages: aptitude remove --purge backuppc (Reading database ... 233038 files and directories currently installed.) Removing backuppc ... Stopping backuppc...start-stop-daemon: user 'backuppc' not found invoke-rc.d: initscript backuppc, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing backuppc (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 configured to not write apport reports Starting backuppc...grep: /etc/backuppc/config.pl: No such file or directory BackupPC cannot be started because important parameters are missing from config.pl. If you just upgraded BackupPC, please update /etc/backuppc/config.pl. invoke-rc.d: initscript backuppc, action "start" failed. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: backuppc E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r50z6r5c....@newsguy.com
