How do I get apt-get to forget a package selection I made? i.e. I okayed the choice of having galeon upgraded to the version available in Experimental (I'm using debian unstable mostly). How do get it to forget I want X package to be installed or upgraded? Apt-get refuses to proceed with any other package upgrades/installation until this issue with galeon-common is resolved. Can apt-get, aptitude or synaptic help? What are the commands?

example error message:
Thanx

file a bug report... it'll be the quickest way to get this fixed.

http://bugs.debian.org

Thanks haimeltjnfg I have filed just such a bug report but I'm interested in knowing how can I get rid of this "1 not fully installed or removed." that comes up each and everytime I try running apt-get to install a new package or have the system upgraded? How do I make apt-get rid this "not fully installed or removed" package galeon-common?

e.g.

apt-get install ee
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
galeon-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ee
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 44.5kB of archives.
After unpacking 7840kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

thanks

Tried installing the version from Unstable with sadly about the same outcome i.e. segfault


apt-get -t unstable install galeon-common galeon
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
galeon-common is already the newest version.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
galeon
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 113 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 3341kB of archives.
After unpacking 1716kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.lugs.org.sg unstable/main galeon 1.3.18-1.1 [713kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.lugs.org.sg unstable/main galeon-common 1.3.18-1.1 [2628kB]
Fetched 3341kB in 1m52s (29.7kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package galeon.
(Reading database ... 219581 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking galeon (from .../galeon_1.3.18-1.1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package galeon-common.
Preparing to replace galeon-common 1.3.18-1.1 (using .../galeon-common_1.3.18-1.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement galeon-common ...
Setting up galeon (1.3.18-1.1) ...

Setting up galeon-common (1.3.18-1.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/galeon-common.postinst: line 47: 23006 Segmentation fault scrollkeeper-update -q
dpkg: error processing galeon-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
galeon-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

In case anyone is interested in my /var/lib/dpkg/info/galeon-common.postins i.e. where the apparent segfault appears i.e. /var/lib/dpkg/info/galeon-common.postinst: line 47: 23006 Segmentation fault scrollkeeper-update -q

it is as follows:

#! /bin/sh
# postinst script for galeon
#
# Stolen completely from konqueror postinst, which was...
# Mostly stolen from the Debian xdm scripts
# Copyright 1998, 1999 Branden Robinson. Licensed under the GNU GPL.
# Acknowlegements to Stephen Early, Mark Eichin, and Manoj Srivastava.

set -e

case "$1" in
configure|abort-upgrade)
if [ -e /etc/gconf/schemas/galeon.schemas ]; then
GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source` \
gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/galeon.schemas > /dev/null
fi
# update alternatives for x-www-browser
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser \
x-www-browser /usr/bin/galeon 120 \
--slave /usr/share/man/man1/x-www-browser.1.gz \
x-www-browser.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/galeon.1.gz
;;
abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
;;

*)
echo "postinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
exit 0
;;
esac

# Make sure, gconf permissions are correct
galeon-config-tool --fix-gconf-permissions

# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically
# generated by other debhelper scripts.

# Automatically added by dh_installmime
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x /usr/sbin/update-mime ]; then update-mime; fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_installmenu
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x /usr/bin/update-menus ]; then update-menus ; fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_scrollkeeper
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && which scrollkeeper-update >/dev/null 2>&1; then
scrollkeeper-update -q
fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_gconf
if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
SCHEMA_LOCATION=/usr/share/gconf/schemas
SCHEMA_FILES="galeon.schemas "
for SCHEMA in $SCHEMA_FILES; do
if [ -e $SCHEMA_LOCATION/$SCHEMA ]; then
HOME=/root GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source` \
gconftool-2 \
--makefile-install-rule $SCHEMA_LOCATION/$SCHEMA > /dev/null
fi
done

kill -s HUP `pidof gconfd-2` >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
# End automatically added section


Any help, any help at all will be deeply appreciated. I really need to get apt-get working again PLEASE! anyone?

And below is the /var/lib/dpkg/info/galeon-common.postrm where my attempted removal of the problematic half-installed/configured galeon-common with dpkg -P galeon-common failed (segfaults also)

debian:/home/mystarship/graphics# dpkg -P galeon-common
(Reading database ... 219581 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing galeon-common ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/galeon-common.postrm: line 13: 7736 Segmentation fault scrollkeeper-update -q
dpkg: error processing galeon-common (--purge):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
galeon-common

/var/lib/dpkg/info/galeon-common.postrm
#!/bin/sh
set -e

# Automatically added by dh_installmime
if which update-mime >/dev/null 2>&1; then update-mime; fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_installmenu
if [ -x "`which update-menus 2>/dev/null`" ]; then update-menus ; fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_scrollkeeper
if [ "$1" = "remove" ] && which scrollkeeper-update >/dev/null 2>&1; then
scrollkeeper-update -q
fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_gconf
if [ "$1" = purge ]; then
OLD_DIR=/etc/gconf/schemas
SCHEMA_FILES="galeon.schemas "
if [ -d $OLD_DIR ]; then
for SCHEMA in $SCHEMA_FILES; do
rm -f $OLD_DIR/$SCHEMA
done
rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty $OLD_DIR
fi
fi
# End automatically added section


if [ "$1" = "purge" ]; then
rm -rf /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/galeon
rm -rf /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/galeon
fi

ok thanks to Craig Small, a Debian devel on #debian-devel, me nightmare with galeon-common is over. His suggestion of inserting an "exit 0" (without the quotes) in and around the 2nd line of the postrm i.e. /var/lib/dpkg/info/galeon-common.postrm did the trick. Ran 'dpkg -P galeon-common' with NO more segfaults. Apt is back to its normal, well-behaved self again. Good, good boy apt, now stay this way. Zillion thanx Craig. "exit 0" sure is a nice trick to know for one to bolt from such situations.