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gforge-db-postgresql package does not uninstall

Bug #3489 reported by Björn Röder
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1489: package fail on "seting up" stage. Edit Remove
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gforge (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
MOTU

Bug Description

I can't uninstall gforge-db-postgresql package. Installing gforge it says it can't configure the package either.

Here's what apt-get gives out:

$ LANG=C sudo apt-get remove gforge-db-postgresql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gforge-db-postgresql
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 770kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 163282 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gforge-db-postgresql ...
Setting up gforge-common (3.1-31) ...
chown: cannot access `/etc/gforge/local.pl': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/etc/gforge/local.pl': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing gforge-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gforge-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Tags: packaging
Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in gforge:
assignee: nobody → motu
Johnny Mast (johnnymast)
Changed in gforge:
assignee: motu → rave
assignee: rave → nobody
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu do you use?

Changed in gforge:
assignee: nobody → motu
status: New → NeedInfo
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Christophe Sauthier (christophe.sauthier) wrote :

I had the same problem today on breezy.

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Alexandre Otto Strube (surak) wrote :

Bjorn, Christophe, does it still happening with latest dapper builds?

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Björn Röder (overgee) wrote :

Oops, it's been quite a while... I can't actually tell anything about dapper handling gforge since I finally - however - got it uninstalled.

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Barry deFreese (bddebian) wrote :

This problem still exists in Dapper and has to do with postgresql now being able to have multiple versions install so the postinst script fails looking in the wrong dirs.

Changed in gforge:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Lord Jason (jdralphs) wrote :

this bug is stopping me from completing a dist-upgrade to dapper.

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Leviani (blind007) wrote :

I Have the same Issue while upgrading to Edgy Eft.
The whole upgrade stoped and I have still 353 Packages on hold, as long as gforge-db-postgresql is not fixable. I can´t re-install and can´t deinstall the package.

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Yusuf Kaka (yusufk) wrote :

Still the same with feisty!

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote :

Could you please check if this is still relevant in version 4.5.14-22ubuntu1?

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Aaron D (drakaar) wrote :

This still fails in version 4.5.14-22ubuntu1

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Tigerboy (tigersands) wrote :

Just to update: Cannot uninstall gforge from ubuntu 9.1 see report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gforge/+bug/493490

everything is the latest version and also as a result of this I cannot uninstall apache.

This is a major unsolved issue and it looks like we are now going into 2010 without any resolution. I am just wondering what will happen if we suddenly see a giant monolith in the sky and there is still no resolution.

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