[Bug 1099788] Re: I can't uninstall completely whoopsie

[Brian Murray]

Please open a new bug report about this issue.

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 01:06:22PM -0000, Andreas Nadobnik wrote:
> I have a similar issue while removing whoopsie within a preseed
> installation, so whoopsie will be removed before it is started the first
> time.
> 
> $ sudo apt purge whoopsie
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   whoopsie*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> (Reading database ... 227602 files and directories currently installed.)
> Purging configuration files for whoopsie (0.2.69) ...
> rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/whoopsie/whoopsie-id': No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing package whoopsie (--purge):
>  installed whoopsie package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  whoopsie
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> As you can see, the post-removal script is missing the whoopsie-id file. After creating the dir and file, the post-removal script runs fine.
> 
> Tested under Ubuntu focal.
> 
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Title:
  I can't uninstall completely whoopsie

Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  $ sudo aptitude -y purge whoopsie
  The following packages will be REMOVED:  
    whoopsie{p} 
  0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
  (Reading database ... 331880 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing whoopsie ...
  Purging configuration files for whoopsie ...
  dpkg: error processing whoopsie (--purge):
   subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                Errors were encountered while processing:
   whoopsie
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: whoopsie (not installed)
  Uname: Linux 3.7.2-999-i7 x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jan 15 12:29:07 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-10 (4 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64(20121023)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=es_ES:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: whoopsie
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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