[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#672686: Bug#672686: lightdm: errors during uninstall and fails to load after reinstall

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On dim., 2012-05-13 at 10:31 +0200, Marco Milone wrote:
> Package: lightdm
> Version: 1.0.11-1
> Followup-For: Bug #672686
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> sorry for the Italian, but I thought that the output message "11" was
> sufficient.

Well, by itself it's pretty useless. I need some context, which is in
italian… And not that the signal 11 was in userdel, so it might be worth
trying the same command outside of lightdm maintainerscripts.

> 
> By the way, I think that my mistake lead us to find the real problem: I purged
> lightdm with LANG=C and no errors were reported:
> 
> ~$ LANG=C sudo aptitude purge lightdm
> [sudo] password for milo:
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   liblightdm-gobject-1-0{u} lightdm{p} lightdm-gtk-greeter{u}
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1214 kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
> (Reading database ... 202190 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing lightdm ...
> Purging configuration files for lightdm ...
> Removing user `lightdm' ...
> Warning: group `lightdm' has no more members.
> Done.
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> (Reading database ... 202101 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing lightdm-gtk-greeter ...
> Removing liblightdm-gobject-1-0 ...
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
> 
> Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
> 
> So I reinstalled lightdm once again and this time all went fine.
> 
> Without LANG=C it fails to delete user and group "lightdm" and during the
> subsequent reinstall it not creates /var/lib/lightdm.

Can you try with LANG=en_US.UTF-8?
> 

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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