[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#731220: Bug#731220: lightdm: Uninstall error

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Tue Dec 3 16:02:08 UTC 2013


On mar., 2013-12-03 at 10:52 +0100, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> userdel: user lightdm is currently used by process 3776
> /usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel lightdm' returned error code 8.
> Exiting.

Seems that userdel won't accept to remove a user if it owns a process.
Never experienced that before so it might be some new behavior, I don't
know.

In any case, that means we need to actually stop the daemon before
removing the user.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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