[LUNI] help with apt-get; remove failure

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:03:35PM -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> Removing apache2-mpm-prefork ...
> * Stopping web server 
> (Apache2)...                                                                
> [fail]
> invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "stop" failed.

I take it you already removed apache2-common?  Perhaps that confuses
the script (having nothing to stop should just say so and continue, not
toss an error).  If so you might need to reinstall apache2-common to
get it past this.

I'd also suggest using aptitude or one of the other interactive package
tools for this sort of thing.  apt-get is pretty darned good for
installing and updating, but as this may demonstrate it can be awkward
to use for rooting out all the components of multi-part packages.  It's
easy to find all the interrelated parts and flag them all for deletion
in one batch, which may avoid whatever is causing that script
failure...

Luck!

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