Comment 6 for bug 620174

I was able to finally remove postfix and then reinstall it.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Scott Kitterman <email address hidden>wrote:

> The standard way to do it is to purge (not just remove) the package, but
> that probably won't work with the postinst failing. You might,
> depending on you level of comfort with such things edit the postinst to
> not call update-rc.d. I'm away from my computers now so it's difficult
> to advise on the best course of action.
>
> --
> package postfix 2.6.5-3 failed to install/upgrade:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/620174
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> Status in “postfix” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: postfix
>
> Upgrading from 8.04 to 9.10
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Wed Aug 18 16:23:58 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ErrorMessage:
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 1
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: postfix 2.6.5-3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-19.62-generic
> SourcePackage: postfix
> Title: package postfix 2.6.5-3 failed to install/upgrade:
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-19-generic x86_64
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