X4v13r
03-17-2002, 04:21 AM
Well one time I tryed a command apt-get remove gdm so it wouldn't get it ever again when I update and it just sat there trying to remove it then I got impacient and just exited out of the terminal then that screwed things up so it told me to do this little thingy to fix it so I fixed it....Okay now here's my problem whenever I try updateing with dselect or I think sometimes apt it trys removing gdm again and just sits there like before. I'd really apreciate the help thx
Strike
03-17-2002, 06:57 AM
Just an update from the battle with this on the IRC front for anyone who was thinking of posting. His gdm pre-removal script is hanging on a cat command which apparently is getting called with no input or output targets, as verified by checking cat's PID with ps and seeing what open fds there were for it in the /proc filesystem - none, not to mention that /proc/<PID>/cmdline was simply "cat" with no input or output. We've isolated the line, and I'm guessing it's probably because he (the thread originator) "deleted some stuff" with regard to gdm. I think it's counting on that stuff being there, and it's not.