Thanks once more for the support! The problem is now solved. On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:20 AM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:48:06 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > > > # dpkg -P sendmail-base > > (Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories currently installed.) > > Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ... > > update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add > > dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--purge): > > installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned > > error exit status 255 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > sendmail-base > > > > Any suggestions? > > I would take a look at the pre-removal script sendmail-base.prerm to > see what it's trying to do. If there are parts that aren't sensible, > you could comment them out, alter things so that they can work, or > even just make them "succeed" with "|| true" so you get to the end > of the script. (Check sendmail-base.postinst while you're about it.) > > The scripts will contain a record of what modifications they intended > to make to your system, so ultimately all you need to do is nullify > those changes, remove the files in sendmail-base.list and convince > dpkg that the package is purged. Manually if necessary. > Thanks for the pointer! sendmail-base.prerm had the line: update-inetd --group MAIL --disable smtp,smtps,submission; and I was getting the error update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add So, I changed it to: update-inetd --disable smtp,smtps,submission; and was then able to uninstall it. Thanks again for your help.
