Managed to find a work-around to uninstall it - I have created the directory /var/run/remote-tty/pid and the uninstall process worked:
r...@frost:/# ls -l /var/run/remote-tty/pid ls: cannot access /var/run/remote-tty/pid: No such file or directory r...@frost:/# mkdir -p /var/run/remote-tty/pid r...@frost:/# apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: remote-tty 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 17 not upgraded. After this operation, 242kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 183460 files and directories currently installed.) Removing remote-tty ... Stopping remote-tty console manager: nothing running. Processing triggers for ureadahead ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Processing triggers for man-db ... Maybe the stop script should check that the pid directory exists before dying -- Unable to remove package remote-tty 4.0-12 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/600497 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