MythWeb 2:0.27.0+fixes.20140417.b93fb14-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3 stuck at half-installed

[Jack Deslippe]

I just updated mythbuntu from 12.04 to 14.04. Things are mostly working, but the mythweb package (2:0.27.0+fixes.20140417.b93fb14-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3) is borked.

It looke like it is half installed and I can't remove or reinstall it.

 sudo apt-get remove mythweb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mythweb
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 4,427 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 139898 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mythweb (2:0.27.0+fixes.20140417.b93fb14-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3) ...
rm: invalid option -- '/'
Try 'rm --help' for more information.
dpkg: error processing package mythweb (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mythweb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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sudo dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --remove mythweb
(Reading database ... 139898 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mythweb (2:0.27.0+fixes.20140417.b93fb14-0ubuntu0mythbuntu3) ...
rm: invalid option -- '/'
Try 'rm --help' for more information.
dpkg: error processing package mythweb (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mythweb

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How can I fix this??

[Aaron (fqn-uirin-x08)]

I just upgraded from from 12.04 to 14.04 as well. I have the exact same issue.

[Thomas Winteler (Win-Soft) (thomi)]

On my installation i just installed the upgrade of mythweb:
2:0.27.0+fixes.20140428.46a146c-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2

I wanted to purge/remove it to reinstall it, but can't remove it.. same error as described above...

[Thomas Winteler (Win-Soft) (thomi)]

check file:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mythweb.postrm

at line 36, add a space between -f and $SYMLINK that it looks like:

rm -f $SYMLINK

thanks to tgm4883 at kubuntu irc ;)

So you can remove the package...

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This was just committed to our packaging here:

https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/commit/eb931726947091b174367d6f0bb2f75ae2a42d9b
https://github.com/MythTV/packaging/commit/75c1f357d6cf35f30c75739c2f339e1fab374df6

any future builds will include the fix. Otherwise please just use the manual workaround until then.

Thanks!

[Thomas Mashos (tgm4883)]

Marking as Fix Released since we provide newer builds in our PPA and this has been marked fix committed for awhile now.