Re: irremovable package?

From: Brian Brazil (bbrazil_at_netsoc.tcd.ie)
Date: 03/31/04

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    On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:19:01PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
    > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
    >
    > Hi. dpkg has become locked up over one errant package and is not
    > allowing anything else to be processed.
    >
    > - -----------------------------------------
    > # dpkg -P --force-all nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686
    > (Reading database ... 118665 files and directories currently
    > installed.)
    > Removing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 ...
    > cat: alsa: No such file or directory
    > dpkg: error processing nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 (--purge):
    > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
    > Errors were encountered while processing:
    > nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686
    > - -----------------------------------------
    >
    > Where can I erase this package from the database so dselect and the
    > rest will again function correctly? The module itself is long gone.

    /var/lib/dpkg/status

    Keep a backup...

    Brian 

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