Failed uninstalling envidia

[oscar]

Not sure what happened, this initiated by automatic crash report. Trying to uninstall envidia in synaptic, did not complete cleanly.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 20 22:42:19 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xorg-driver-fglrx-envy None
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: linux-restricted-modules-envy-2.6.24
Title: package xorg-driver-fglrx-envy None failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

Relevant part of the log:

> Log started: 2008-08-20 22:42:18
> (Reading database ... 187987 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing xorg-driver-fglrx-envy ...
> Purging configuration files for xorg-driver-fglrx-envy ...
> rmdir: failed to remove `/usr/lib/fglrx': Directory not empty
> update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/atieventsd exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
> dpkg: error processing xorg-driver-fglrx-envy (--purge):
> subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1

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[Mr. Jester (mrjester)]

I am having the same issue. Ubuntu 8.04 with ATI Envy drivers installed, upgraded to 8.10. Synaptic shows residual configurations. Purging config returns the following error.

Log started: 2008-11-08 23:44:13
(Reading database ... 112961 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xorg-driver-fglrx-envy ...
Purging configuration files for xorg-driver-fglrx-envy ...
rmdir: failed to remove `/usr/lib32/fglrx': Directory not empty
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/atieventsd exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
dpkg: error processing xorg-driver-fglrx-envy (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xorg-driver-fglrx-envy

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Jon:
1) can you attach the output of this command?
ls -l /usr/lib32/fglrx
2) does it solve the problem if you type the following command and then you try to remove xorg-driver-fglrx-envy?
sudo rm -R /usr/lib32/fglrx

[Mr. Jester (mrjester)]

Listing output:

$ ls -l /usr/lib32/fglrx
total 384K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 378K 2008-10-21 23:54 libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa

I renamed it to fglrx.old and tryied uninstalling.

Removing xorg-driver-fglrx-envy ...
Purging configuration files for xorg-driver-fglrx-envy ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/atieventsd exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
dpkg: error processing xorg-driver-fglrx-envy (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xorg-driver-fglrx-envy

I do have an ATI card.