cannot uninstall

Bug #733986 reported by Edward
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #869986: Fusionforge fails-to-install cleanup. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

:~$ sudo apt-get purge gforge-db-postgresql*
[sudo] password for:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'gforge-db-postgresql' for regex 'gforge-db-postgresql*'
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gforge-db-postgresql*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 1,245kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 290688 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gforge-db-postgresql ...
Replacing config file /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf with new version
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 not found.
dpkg: error processing gforge-db-postgresql (--purge):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gforge-db-postgresql
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Originally found error when uninstalling packages using Synaptic Package Manager.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gforge-db-postgresql 5.0.1+svn10088-1
ProcVersionSignature: hostname 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 12 11:35:01 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fusionforge

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Edward (edwardtisdale-2004) wrote :
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aaron (aaron-zareason) wrote :

It seems related to not being able to properly configure in the first place because of this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gforge/+bug/660485

Changed in fusionforge (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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