[plug] apt-get remove fails

[Russ Powers]

 --- James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> wrote: 
> In message <200404022024.09035.russ at powerstech.com>
> on Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:24:09PM +0800, Russ Powers wrote:
> > I tried to install deborphan a couple of days ago and it failed. It just 
> > stopped and sat there for hours. I tried to kill it but it wouldn't die. I 
> > had to reboot.
> 
> (In my experience, deborphan takes far less than a second on all systems
> I have to far tested.) If the process was (and still is) truly

I had left it running for over three hours?

> unkillable -- that is, it falls into Linux's "uninterruptable" state --
> I would think that you should suspect a hardware problem (or maybe a
> corrupted filesystem).

This is where it gets when I try to install:

/home/russ# apt-get install deborphan
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1330 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/37.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 193kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package deborphan.
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `deborphan' missing, 
assuming package has no files currently installed.
158789 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace deborphan 1.5-17 (using .../deborphan_1.5-17_i386.deb) 
...
Unpacking replacement deborphan ...

The "serious warning" seemed a good sign to me that three hours was more than 
enough and something else was wrong.  :)

I can't imagine what kind of hardware problem could cause just one package to 
die.

It causes all sorts of trouble when I apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. 
Everything else works but that package. 

I'd be happy now just to get rid of it, But it won't let me do that.

I'll try reiserfsck.


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