[ILUG] Debian dpkg --configure fails

[Michael Thompson]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:07:56 +0000, John Madden <maddenj+ilug at skynet.ie> wrote:
> On (01/02/05 15:36), Michael Thompson didst pronounce:
> >
> > Nope that doesn't work, when I run the install step it seems to
> > remember that I have previously configure this package so doesn't ask
> > me thoose questions again.
> > 
> apt-get remove cacti && dpkg --purge cacti
> 
> then re-install it. The --purge will remove all its config files, which
> are sometimes kept after an uninstall.

No the post removal script fails.

Purging configuration files for cacti ...
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root at localhost' (Using password: YES)
dpkg: error processing cacti (--purge):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cacti

Looking at the script, /var/lib/dpkg/info/cacti.postrm where are the
values of $RET set?



#! /bin/sh
# postrm script for mifluz
#
# see: dh_installdeb(1)
 
set -e
 
get_config()
{
        db_get cacti/mysql_server
        mysql_server="$RET"
        db_get cacti/database
        database="$RET"
        db_get cacti/root_mysql
        root_mysql="$RET"
        db_get cacti/root_password
        root_passwd="$RET"
        db_get cacti/username
        username="$RET"
        db_get cacti/password
        password="$RET"
        db_get cacti/purge_db
        purge_db="$RET"
        db_get cacti/webserver
        webserver="$RET"
}
case "$1" in
        purge)
        . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
        db_version 2.0
        get_config
        mysqlpwd=""
        if [ "$root_passwd" != 'none' ]; then
                mysqlpwd="-p${root_passwd}"
        fi
        mysqlcmd="mysql -h ${mysql_server} -u${root_mysql} ${mysqlpwd}"
       includefile=/etc/cacti/apache.conf
                server=${webserver}
                servers=${webserver}
                . /usr/share/wwwconfig-common/apache-uninclude_all.sh
                if [ "$status" = "purge" ]
                then
                        restart="${webserver}"
                fi
                test -d /etc/cacti && rm -rf /etc/cacti
                if [ "${purge_db}" = "true" ]
                then
                        $mysqlcmd -e "drop database ${database}"
                        $mysqlcmd -e "delete from user where
user='${username}' and host='${mysql_server}'" mysql
                        $mysqlcmd -e "delete from db where
user='${username}' and host='${mysql_server}'" mysql
                fi
 
        ;;
 
       remove)