Bug#882971: lvm2: Cannot uninstall lvm2: pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Jason Rhinelander jagerman at jagerman.com
Tue Nov 28 02:56:40 UTC 2017


Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.176-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Attempting to `apt-get remove lvm2` fails in the pre-removal script:



jagerman at keynes:~$ sudo apt-get -y remove lvm2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  lvm2
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3,374 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 343047 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lvm2 (2.02.176-4) ...
Syntax: /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke <action> <unit file> [<unit file> ...]
dpkg: error processing package lvm2 (--remove):
 installed lvm2 package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Failed to start lvm2-monitor.service: Unit dm-event.socket is masked.
Syntax: /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke <action> <unit file> [<unit file> ...]
Errors were encountered while processing:
 lvm2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
pn  dmeventd                  <none>
ii  dmsetup                   2:1.02.145-4
ii  libblkid1                 2.30.2-0.1
ii  libc6                     2.24-17
pn  libdevmapper-event1.02.1  <none>
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.145-4
pn  liblvm2app2.2             <none>
ii  libreadline5              5.2+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libsystemd0               235-3
ii  libudev1                  235-3
ii  lsb-base                  9.20170808

Versions of packages lvm2 recommends:
pn  thin-provisioning-tools  <none>

lvm2 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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