remove lighttpd

[YannTech]

Binary package hint: lighttpd

I can't remove the latest version of lighttpd (1.4.11-3ubuntu 3 dapper)

$ remove lighttpd
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait
Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS :
  lighttpd
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 1 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 0o dans les archives.
Après dépaquetage, 848ko d'espace disque seront libérés.
Souhaitez-vous continuer [O/n] ?
(Lecture de la base de données... 88526 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Suppression de lighttpd ...
 * Stopping web server lighttpd [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript lighttpd, action "stop" failed.
dpkg : erreur de traitement de lighttpd (--remove) :
 le sous-processus pre-removal script a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
 * Starting web server lighttpd [ ok ]
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
 lighttpd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Ethan Lofton (eleaf)]

I have this problem too whenever I try and remove lighttpd. The only way I could fix it was to add 'exit 0' on a new line in the /etc/init.d/lighttpd init script after #!/bin/sh ...

And then I had to remove all lighttpd related files manually. Extremely annoying, horrific package to a great project. The package also fails to do things such as creating the user "www" and group "www" , causing havoc.

Absolutely horrible, this needs to be fixed urgently!! ;S

[Pete Crosier (pjcrosier-deactivatedaccount)]

I've "fixed" this by editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/lighttpd.prerm .. commenting out everything within/including the if.. statement and then running apt-get remove as normal.

[Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier)]

Fix uploaded to edgy.

[Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier)]

lighttpd (1.4.11-7ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable:
    -> Restore B-D on libmemcache-dev.
    -> Keep the additional dependency on libterm-readline-perl-perl.
  * debian/patches:
    -> Add 02_mod_ssl_post_fix.dpatch: fix a stall with POST requests between
       8317 and 16381 bytes long when mod_ssl is enabled.

lighttpd (1.4.11-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/create-mime.assign.pl - catchup error when /etc/mime.types is not
    readable (closes: #375347)

lighttpd (1.4.11-6) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
   - Recommends: Changed to alternative: php4-cgi | php5-cgi (closes: #368215)
  * include-conf-enabled.pl script changed according to patch from
    Tobias Gruetzmacher <email address hidden> (closes: #368352)
  * debian/lighttpd.conf: removed global for local aliases (/images/, /doc/)
    (closes: #366801)

lighttpd (1.4.11-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/init.d:
   - --oknodo added to section "stop" to close finally #35979
   - --retry 30 added to section "reload", to prevents problems with
     logrotating (closes: #366366)
  * debian/control:
   Standards-Version: increased to 3.7.2 without additional changes

lighttpd (1.4.11-4) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) ]
  * debian/init.d:
   - "exit 1" after failed actions removed (closes: #359792)
  * debian/conf-available/10-fastcgi.conf updated (closes: #362827)
    thanks to Joerg Rieger <a.mailinglists#lumrix.net>

  [ Torsten Marek ]
  * Change my email address to <email address hidden>
  * Remove --background from the start action, since it
    breaks the error checking of start-stop-daemon.
    The behaviour described in #355865 is not reproducable
    any more.
  * make reload action in initscript more well-behaved

[Kevin Smith (ubuntu-qualitycode)]

I'm running 7.04 Feisty Fawn and just had the same problem.

Tried to apt-get remove lighttpd, but the prerem script tries to stop the service, and the service is not running, so the remove fails. Since I have a different web service running already, it would be somewhat difficult to get lighttpd started.

I had to follow the instructions at http://www.urbanpuddle.com/articles/2007/05/05/fixing-lighttpd-update-problem-on-ubuntu which are:

  Go to /var/lib/dpkg/info directory and edit the lighttpd.prerm file. What you want to do is comment out everything except the set -e.

Quite frustrating, especially for something that supposedly was fixed earlier.