I tried this, and it didn't work. The reason is that these are expected to be XML schemas, and a zero-length file isn't a valid XML file. So the removal process still fails. I did figure out how to uninstall gnome-games-data, however. I simply found where the pre-remove script was, and edited to remove the offending line. The pre-removal script was located in:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-games-data.prerm This script was calling the gconf-schemas command with non-existent schemas. Commenting out this line (I actually put an "echo" at the start of the offending line) allowed me to do an: apt-get remove gnome-games-data successfully. Now I no longer get errors when installing/uninstalling other packages. 2008/11/3 Greg Unger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > @ Eric: > > what if you were to create empty text files at /usr/share/gconf/schemas > for every file apt-get says it can't find. would you be able to > uninstall gnome-games-data then? > > -- > error updating gnomes-game-data > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274565 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "gnome-games" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gnome-games-data > > in 8.10 > > after an update I have that: > > Usage: gconf-schemas --[un]register file1.schemas [file2.schemas [...]] > > gconf-schemas: error: You need at least a file to (un)register. > dpkg : erreur de traitement de gnome-games-data (--configure) : > le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de sortie > d'état 2 > dpkg : des problèmes de dépendances empêchent la configuration de > gnome-games : > gnome-games dépend de gnome-games-data (>= 1:2.24) ; cependant : > Le paquet gnome-games-data n'est pas encore configuré. > gnome-games dépend de gnome-games-data (<< 1:2.25) ; cependant : > Le paquet gnome-games-data n'est pas encore configuré. > dpkg : erreur de traitement de gnome-games (--configure) : > problèmes de dépendances - laissé non configuré > No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup > error from a previous failure. > Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant > l'exécution : > gnome-games-data > gnome-games > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > since that, every update reproduce this error. > -- error updating gnomes-game-data https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274565 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs