can't remove psad package

[Pavel Shaydo]

Binary package hint: psad

I'm trying to remove psad package, but pre-removal script fails. Here is the apt-get output:

$ sudo apt-get purge psad
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl libdate-calc-perl libcarp-clan-perl
  libunix-syslog-perl libbit-vector-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  psad*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 2847kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 120544 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing psad ...
find: /var/run/psad/: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing psad (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
ERR: Syslog has not been configured to send messages to
/var/lib/psad/psadfifo. Please configure it as described in psad(8).
Errors were encountered while processing:
 psad
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

psad version is 2.1-1
Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 desktop

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 19 16:21:23 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: psad 2.1-1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: psad
Title: package psad 2.1-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

[Pavel Shaydo (pshajdo)]

It was successfully deleted after I've created /var/run/psad directory

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package psad - 2.1.3-1.1ubuntu1

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psad (2.1.3-1.1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Fix failure to remove package if /var/run/psad doesn't exist (LP: #250088)
    This can happen if /var/run is mounted as tmpfs
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:36:48 +0200