Can't remove an app: error code 3 for DPKG

vargadanis · 05-20-2007, 11:04 AM

Hi!

I accidentally installed clvm and it also installed some other dependencies such as redhat-cluster-management or something similar. When trying to remove it I get an error message:

Quote:

dani@dani-laptop:~$ sudo aptitude remove clvm
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
app-install-data-commercial apport apport-gtk capplets-data
gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
libgnome-window-settings1 libmetacity0 libpanel-applet2-0 libslab0
libsmbclient metacity metacity-common python-apport python-problem-report
rdesktop samba-common smbclient tzdata update-manager update-manager-core
The following packages will be REMOVED:
clvm
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 492kB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 94043 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing clvm ...
Stopping Cluster LVM Daemon invoke-rc.d: initscript clvm, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing clvm (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting Cluster LVM Daemon clvmd could not connect to cluster manager
Consult syslog for more information
invoke-rc.d: initscript clvm, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
Errors were encountered while processing:
clvm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dani@dani-laptop:~$

The syslog:

Quote:

May 19 20:02:02 dani-laptop ccsd[4032]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 120 seconds.
May 19 20:02:33 dani-laptop ccsd[4032]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 150 seconds.
May 19 20:03:02 dani-laptop ccsd[4032]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 180 seconds.
May 19 20:03:32 dani-laptop ccsd[4032]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 210 seconds.
May 19 20:04:02 dani-laptop ccsd[4032]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 240 seconds.
May 19 20:04:32 dani-laptop ccsd[4032]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 270 seconds.
May 19 20:04:46 dani-laptop clvmd: Can't open cluster manager socket: No such file or directory
May 19 20:05:02 dani-laptop ccsd[4032]: Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure after 300 seconds.

I tried dpkg-reconfigure but it also didn't work at all. How could I remove it than? I need to install some other softwares but aptitude or DPKG or apt-get doesn't let me as long as I have a broken package. Pls help!

Thx...

vxc69 · 05-21-2007, 11:56 PM

Hello,

First do this:
sudo rm /etc/init.d/clvm

Then:
sudo apt-get --purge -f remove clvm

Should work.

vxc

HappyTux · 05-22-2007, 12:18 AM

You might also want to try dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq clvm if the above does not work.

vargadanis · 05-26-2007, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vxc69

Hello,

First do this:
sudo rm /etc/init.d/clvm

Then:
sudo apt-get --purge -f remove clvm

Should work.

vxc

Awesome!! It did really work. Wow.. LoL. That thing made my life a little bit more complicated but worked out. I knew that there is a solution.

Dan

cfrivas · 06-16-2007, 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vargadanis

Awesome!! It did really work. Wow.. LoL. That thing made my life a little bit more complicated but worked out. I knew that there is a solution.

Dan

I tried the same thing and this is what was spit back:

cfrivas@cfrivas-desktop:~$ sudo rm /etc/init.d/clvm
cfrivas@cfrivas-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --purge -f remove clvm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libmpich1.0c2 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 lvm2 librdf0 adept-installer cdda2wav
adept-updater gconf libqt4-qt3support libqt4-core libgal23 libglade-gnome0
adept-batch wv librasqal0 gcc-3.4-base libgnome-vfs-common
libgnomeprint-data python-ipy libdlm2 adept lvm-common libqt4-gui libfltk1.1
libwv-1.2-3 libxine-main1 oaf libxml1 libntfs8 libtunepimp3 libqt4-sql
sfftw2 libgdk-pixbuf2 libcrypto++5.2c2a libgnome-vfs0 libhamlib2 libpq4
liblog4cxx9c2a libcman2 python-elementtree libclalsadrv1 libg2c0 libgconf11
adept-notifier libglade0 libclucene0 mdadm libgnomeprint15 liboaf0
mozilla-firefox strigi-daemon libgnomeprint-bin
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
clvm*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 492kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Abort.

Tuttle · 11-17-2007, 04:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vxc69

Hello,

First do this:
sudo rm /etc/init.d/clvm

Then:
sudo apt-get --purge -f remove clvm

Should work.

vxc

Thankyou, that method also worked on a broken install of spamass-milter.

edit: I removed the --purge option first as it would have removed beryl and all sorts of other stuff too

edit2: Actually that would have removed stuff too, so I used the synaptic package manager after having removed the init.d file for spamass-milter