[From nobody Tue Mar 9 23:01:00 2010 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:34:06 -0600 From: "Dr. Scott S. Jones" <scott@fyrenice.com> To: ldap-support@umich.edu Subject: need help purging Message-ID: <20080616193406.GA31618@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) I had installed, but never configured or run slapd a few months ago. Now, I want to upgrade my system to etch, but I run into the following issues when attempting this task: fyrenice:/home/scott/mydata/dox/fm# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies. slapd: Depends: libldap-2.3-0 (= 2.3.30-5) but 2.3.30-5+etch1 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. fyrenice:/home/scott/mydata/dox/fm# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies...Done The following extra packages will be installed: slapd The following packages will be upgraded: slapd 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 261 not upgraded. 17 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1174kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up libblkid1 (1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1) ... (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `slapd' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 193136 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace slapd 2.3.30-5 (using .../slapd_2.3.30-5+etch1_i386.deb) ... start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/slapd: No such file or directory (No such file or directory) dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/slapd_2.3.30-5+etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/slapd_2.3.30-5+etch1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I am just curious if you would know how I could purge slapd from my system and file lists so I can proceed? scott -- "If you can't afford Prevention now, how will you afford disease later?" Sandy Chiropractic Office Dr. Scott S. Jones V: 801.566.5428 MAILING ADDRESS F: 801.858.9300 PO Box 1154 E: scott@fyrenice.com Sandy, Utah 84091-1154 ]