rabbitmq-server fails to uninstall

[Scott Moser]

$ sudo apt-get --purge remove rabbitmq-server

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,790 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 29070 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing rabbitmq-server ...
Stopping rabbitmq-server: rabbitmq-server.
Purging configuration files for rabbitmq-server ...
Removing user `rabbitmq' ...
Warning: group `rabbitmq' has no more members.
userdel: user rabbitmq is currently logged in
/usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel rabbitmq' returned error code 8. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing rabbitmq-server (--purge):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: rabbitmq-server (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.0.0-12.20-virtual 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-virtual x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 20 00:42:19 2011
Ec2AMI: ami-87bb74ee
Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-images-testing-us/ubuntu-oneiric-daily-amd64-server-20111019.manifest.xml
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1c
Ec2InstanceType: m1.large
Ec2Kernel: aki-825ea7eb
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rabbitmq-server
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

This means that the process was still running when the script tried to remove the user.

http://wiki.debian.org/AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts discusses if a system user should get deleted after all.

However, the server process should have been stopped anyway.

See bug #387945 about this issue in couchdb.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rabbitmq-server - 2.6.1-1ubuntu2

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rabbitmq-server (2.6.1-1ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * close file handles of rabbitmq-server daemon in init script (LP: #878600)
  * fix dpkg failure on purge (LP: #878597)
 -- Scott Moser <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:51:20 -0400